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Maternity clothes
| Fri, 10-19-2012 - 9:05am |
Where are you getting yours? And what are you paying for them??
It appears that even though I live in NJ there aren't that many places to buy in the store and that I will be doing most of my shopping online.
Alice
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mine are a mix of motherhood and target. motherhood is kinda exensive but their jeans are most comfortable to me and if i get anything else there it's in the clearance section or on sale
I got mine at Old Navy. I love their regular clothes, so I just ordered maternity from them too. The jeans are really comfy. I actually broke down and started wearing them yesterday because it was that or buy the next size up in regular jeans, and that didn't make sense!!
I am pretty solidly in my materinity clothes now. But this is my third, so that is probably why. I need the maternity pants for my bump, but few of my tops cover the maternity pants.
Anyways, mine are a mix from Motherhood, Target, Gap and Old Navy. The Gap ones are my favorite, but because of the price I limit it to the nice clothes that I use when I have meetings and client visits. Target and Old Navy really for the weekend stuff (yoga pants, easy tops, etc.). And I have (and my best friend has given me) a fair bit of Motherhood from previous pregnancies. The Motherhood stuff is my least favorite as it sometimes seems frumpy to me (likely because it is older styles given I wore it 6 years ago), but it works on the days I work and get to sit in my office all day.
I was fortunate to get some clothes (mostly pants) from another mom via Craigslist. There was one classic styled dress/jumper in there, too. I have several t-shirts and camis that are really long, and they seem to still be OK with the maternity pants at this point. I have been wearing mostly dresses, anyway, though, because they are more comfortable. The hand-me-downs are from Motherhood and Old Navy, and the few things I've purchased were from Old Navy online. I don't know about anyone else's Old Navy, but our local stores don't have maternity sections. The Target maternity is small and pretty much useless (to me, anyway). I found a really cute boutique called A Pea in the Pod, but I certainly don't even spend what they want for their clothes on non-maternity clothes. So I've looked, but haven't bought anything there.
I was fortunate to get some clothes (mostly pants) from another mom via Craigslist. There was one classic styled dress/jumper in there, too. I have several t-shirts and camis that are really long, and they seem to still be OK with the maternity pants at this point. I have been wearing mostly dresses, anyway, though, because they are more comfortable. The hand-me-downs are from Motherhood and Old Navy, and the few things I've purchased were from Old Navy online. I don't know about anyone else's Old Navy, but our local stores don't have maternity sections. The Target maternity is small and pretty much useless (to me, anyway). I found a really cute boutique called A Pea in the Pod, but I certainly don't even spend what they want for their clothes on non-maternity clothes. So I've looked, but haven't bought anything there.
A friend invited me to a clothing swap last night. Some women who wore larger sizes than I were there, and I was able to come home with several larger sized tops that I think will work for quite some time--if not for hte whole pregnancy. I'm thinking...short sleeves with cardigans and jackets are going to be my thing.
Thrift stores near me seem to have a good selection of stuff, usually at around $3 to $4 per item. And eBay has lots of good maternity clothes up -- I bought two different lots of clothes from eBay in the last couple weeks, they averaged out to be about $6-7 per item. Good luck!
I do not buy maternity clothes anymore especially with this one. I have friends, sisters and cousins who pass around the clothes. The first pregnancy I did splurge and bought from Motherhood 3 outfits but that was it. I am lucky in this respect not to have to buy any.