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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids have always looked nice. I take pride in how they look. It does not bother me what other people wear. [/quote]
 
My kids look much nicer than I do. :) I mean, they are wearing shorts and t-shirts in the summer, but my son wears khaki shorts and a nice t-shirt and my daughter wears clamdigger shorts and a nice t-shirt or tunic. They are 4 and 18 months. We buy from Target, Carters, and a few shirts on sale from Tea, mostly because I like their styles -- and they have worn well, but not to a magical extent like other posters claim. (I like Old Navy style but find that the shirts fall to pieces after just a couple of washes. I don't have this problem with Target or Carters.)

Still - they are kids. Stuff gets stained. I try to get the stains out, and I try to have a few non-stained shirts for them to wear on weekends and just send them to day care in the stained stuff, but usually about 2/3 of the way through the season (like now) the pickings are getting slim.  I won't dress them in anything that is not clean (as in, washed and dried) or ripped, or excessively pilled -- but stains? Yeah, they're going to wear lightly stained clothes.

Also, hair. My son's hair is thick and has just a slight wave, so it's easy to keep in check. Even roughed up it looks decent. My poor daughter inherited my fine, wavy, fly-away-prone hair. It is very hard to manage. She starts the day with it neatly in a half-pony and the shorter back ends curling cutely, but within about 2 hours her hair is a mess. I fix it periodically and her teachers do too, but I'm not going to spend the whole day tugging on her hair in lieu of letting her just play. And chopping it short doesn't help. It would have to be practically in a crew cut to stay out of her face and I'm not going to do that to a girl. [/quote]

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