Why waste money on the little messy monsters!

I am known for my thriftiness, so imagine everyone’s surprise when I started kitting out my new born daughter in Gap, Monsoon and John Rocha clothes. People asked if pregnancy hormones had turned me into a designer junkie, had I left my value days behind me.
I’m afraid not, I had to disillusion people when I stated that many of my designer clothes were either gifts or from ebay. I had not lost all leave of my senses!
Why would I suddenly start paying £20+ for an outfit that would be worn maybe twice for my week old daughter, when I don’t spend that on myself!!!
A child grows at a great rate of knots, they get filthy dirty, you put an outfit on them and within an hour they look like they’ve slept rough for a week, you then have to attack the outfit with a variety of stain devils, and then go through the whole rigmarole again the next week. Why would you do this to a designer outfit? Better off getting a value pack of shorts and t-shirts from Primark, Tesco and the like, let them wear them once or twice (stains and all) and then use them for rags.
Honestly kids are for getting messy, not a walking model of how rich you are!