My sentiments exactly. I made the mistake of sending our daughter to school in her best get-up when she first started Kindy, and was rewarded with ruined clothes on a few occasions - glue, paint, glitter, mud, more glue, you name it, it was probably on her clothes!
It's pretty much the unsaid rule that you don't, especially when the kids are younger, send them to school in their best clothes. The Warehouse, Farmers, or similar, sell decent enough clothes for a reasonable price, that you don't mind occasionally getting stained or ruined. By all means, buy an expensive outfit or two for special occasions, but they'll probably only get to wear those once or twice before they outgrow them (unless you have an extortionate amount of special occasions within a year!).
The teachers look at it like as long as the kids come to school clean and well-fed, so what if there is a stain or two on their pants that wouldn't come out in the wash..... Unfortunately for mums but fortunately for kids, over here, the messier the fun, the better!
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