This is an interesting one considering I now run an online maternity clothes store! And be warned...this blog has lots of questions!
I am really trying to rack my brains as to what maternity clothes I did buy when I fell pregnant nearly 13 years and 9 months ago to this day, and I've come to the conclusion that I didn't buy anything apart from a nursing bra! To be honest, I'm not really sure I looked in any particular shop for maternity clothes! I was a poor lowly student you know!
Baggy t shirts and a pair of oversized denim dungarees is all I remember wearing, apart from a rather dull looking nursing bra that I probably didn't wash with a brand leading soap powder! Is that sad? I'm desperately trying to find pictures of me when I was pregnant, to see just how I looked but somehow they seem to have disappeared. I'll track them down and get a couple scanned [it was before the digital age!] to upload on a future blog.
When I was researching other maternity clothes websites in the days before Global Maternity, one topic of conversation stood out. A vast majority of the online maternity clothes retailers were established because the owners couldn't find suitable maternity clothes when they were pregnant. I'm not sure if this is true in all cases, but judging by my distinct lack of interest in maternity clothes back then and the fact that my daughter is nearly 13 I couldn't really use that as a reason for opening Global Maternity.
Another question that gets asked frequently is 'what are the key pieces of maternity clothing I should be buying'? And 'how many maternity clothes should I buy'? I know that this will differ because thankfully we are all individuals with different tastes, budgets, social and working lives etc, but what do you all think?
For example, have you bought or did you buy maternity swimwear, maternity underwear, maternity lingerie, maternity pyjamas or nightshirts? Is any of this really necessary?
How many and what maternity clothes have you bought?
What types of maternity clothes do you think are a waste of money and even if you had large dollops of money you just wouldn't entertain?
Questions, questions, questions...I'm like a child who keeps on asking 'why'!!!
But seriously, I would love to hear what you have to say and it will help me in terms of what Global Maternity offers in the long term.
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ReplyDeleteTo be honest, I didn't spend much at all on maternity clothes, mainly because all the mums I knew were so eager to give me theirs. It seems that once you've had a baby you don't have to spend any money at all if you don't want to. We furnished the entire nursery for 50p (which bought a changing mat from Ebay - everything else was either hand-me-down or from Freecycle).
I did find that I needed to buy a decent pair of comfy jeans to live in. They had to be short enough for my legs (so none of the hand-me-downs would do) and they had to be over-the-bump (over-bump is The Way To Go, seriously. All the under-bump stuff is horribly uncomfortable and falls down.)
Had it been summer, I expect I would have wanted a decent dress to go to weddings in, but as it was dead of winter I lived in long jumpers, leggings and thick socks - a kind of pregnant 80s look.
Nursing clothes, though - do you sell those? I hate my breastfeeding wardrobe, everything is either too low-necked or a frumpy shape because of front buttons. I haven't felt like myself for 7 months. I'd love to find a summer dress in which I could breastfeed decently, and for winter, something resembling a polo-neck jumper but with some kind of secret panel so that I didn't have to pull it up and reveal mummy-tummy. Now that, I would spend money on.
Hi Amy,
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comments and I'm sorry that you haven't felt yourself since having your baby. I don't sell Nursing Clothes but I will certaintly do some research for you over the next couple of days and let you know about the summer dresses and polo-neck jumpers, although the jumpers might not be available yet until the autumn/winter collections are out. But, GOOD NEWS - I may have the answer for you in terms of showing 'mummy-tummy'. Have you heard of Breastvest? Check this site out www.breastvest.co.uk - let me know what you think and if you do buy from them say that you heard about it from me! Take care and will be in touch soon. Lou x