Nursery clothes vs everyday clothes

[ailbhe]

Elsenet, someone remarked that her daughter has nursery clothes which are not suitable for everyday use, so she needs new things to wear at weekends.

I'm confused. Weekends are two days long. How is that everyday?

And do kids really do more messy things at nursery than at home with their parents? Linnea's always cleaner after times in creches than after time with me at home, presumably because they can't bath her so painting etc is more restrained.

But everyday meaning "two days a week" bothered me.

Comments

[tchemgrrl.livejournal.com]

I, too, think of "everyday" clothes as the non-special ones, and because of that, I would have assumed that the child was wearing much nicer clothes at school, and needed some slobbier clothes for after school/weekends. That's how it worked for me growing up because I went to a Catholic school with uniforms, but it does seem strange if it's a young kid at a nursery.