I'm the same as everyone here. My own daughter wears dresses sometimes because she loves them (and I have two boys, so now that I have a girl, I want to put her in dresses..lol). But, I don't care if she gets them dirty and the don't get in her way of playing at all. All the kids wear splash pants for spring fall, but other than that, I don't worry about getting their clothes dirty. I do have painting smocks that I use for painting though because I don't want to ruin clothes unnecessarily.