Now let me say that for most of my adult life, I have battled my weight. My friends will all balk and say, you’re not fat, but my clothes size is in the double digits and that can cause issues at times. I can’t pull off certain styles, so I dress to flatter my body type and typically I don’t have many complaints.
That being said, there have been two times in my life, where being a busty size 12 doesn’t work and sends me into near hysterics. The first was wedding dress shopping. Whoever decided that sample dresses should be a 4-10 and that would work for the majority of America was smoking something and if I ever meet them, they had better run! But this topic could be an entire blog and I don’t want to get off point. The wedding dress is obviously water under the bridge and my dress is somewhere in the bottom of a landfill somewhere, but now pregnant for the second time I am reminded how much of the fashion industry is built for my petite sized friends and it makes me so mad.
Can someone tell me why the designer maternity clothes don’t even go to an XL? Large is the best they can do?!? When I am rocking my enormous pregnancy boobs, how am I supposed to fit into large tops or dresses?? Come on people; give the big girl some love. I have a maternity clothes budget, I want to spend it, but I wind up in the cheap stuff because it runs bigger and I can get my pregnant body into it.
And can we talk about the empire waist? Why is it that three quarters of maternity clothes show this waist line? It is not big girl friendly. My boobs blow up like watermelons and I don’t want to draw any attention to them. Making the neckline focus on my breasts is not helping me!!
I think the worst part is that being pregnant and hormonal, the lack of options sends me reeling. You don’t want to be the sales associate to ask me if I need any help, because if you catch me on the wrong day, you will regret it. So come on designers, don’t fear the XL and show all size women that with the right fit we can all look fabulous!
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I totally remember having a meltdown in the dressing room and just leaving empty handed. It’s so frustrating. I did eventually find a few key items and would wear them just about every week. I really liked Liz Lange’s line at Target. It seemed to fit the best for me and my growing ta-tas and belly. The designer apparel was just as frustrating pregnant as it is in real life – unless you’re a toothpick, it just doesn’t work.
Girl, you look like a beauty queen! I had the same issues and was preggers with twins – tap that! It’s a blip in time, the fashion designers can jump in a lake. I’m over the tee-tiny models in everything from tweens & teens all the way up to pregnancy. Muscle through it, save your $ and invest in something cute for when you’re feeling yuck one month into being a new mommy of TWO!
I am totall going through the same thing now… my husband and I spent hundreds of dollars yesterday to get my maternity shopping done for the remaining six months… I am a size 10-12 normally and 5’8 so I completely get the difficulty in finding anything designer, especially in maternity…..Well I pretty much said to my husband lets just get this over with by hitting up Old Navy, Kohls, Ross etc. (because they would have large/ x large I assumed) Oh wow, BIG mistake…complete tears this morning, I tried the bags and bags of clothes on and Jeans: too short, Sweaters: too BIG, and the dresses…they had the arm space made for a man with massive biceps… SO now my distraught self and my not-so-excited husband get to return it all and START OVER… I want to cry and scream at once. Why cant clothes be made for real women with real bodies?
This is my exact battle right now!! I’m pregnant w/ #4, and everyone just jutted out that much earlier this time around.
Plus, I was a size 8-10 when I got pregnant. I’m 16 weeks, and already finding it a struggle for maternity sizing. 🙁 Did you ever find a good place to suggest?