Around one in six will sport a new
hairdo, a similar number have bought a new outfit while
others will be showing off a bronzed look.
It also emerged the average mother will spend up to 25 minutes perfecting her hair and make-up and deciding what to wear in preparation for the big day.
Amazingly, that's around seven minutes longer than it will take them to get the children ready.
Yesterday a spokeswoman for Sainsbury's, which carried out the research among 2,000 mums to mark the start of the new school year, said: 'Mums put themselves under an awful lot of pressure to be great at everything.
'And it seems looking their best is something else they want to perfect for the first day of school.
'People are often quick to judge, and a massive number of mums feel the need to impress at the school gates and purposefully get their hair done or splash out on new clothes.
Источник: Daily Mail