In the summer I wear a lot of dresses with wedges and a cardigan (b/c it's cold in the office). I've gotten into wrap dresses more this summer, which are easy to grab and wear, no ironing!
In the winter it's usually dress pants and a sweater or top/cardigan combo. I have a few dresses I do with tights and boots also.
Jeans and a t shirt. I work from home and get covered in boogers and spit up doing daycare all day. I always try to look nice - I don't wear sweats very often, I usually wear earrings, have my hair done nice, etc. I think it looks a lot better to parents than if I were wearing sweats with wet hair. I don't dress "Up" but I try to have on jeans and a clean shirt and put some effort in.
I'll be a PIP aw and show you my last couple of outfits. We've been doing OOTD's over on CEP/PCE if you want to search for those. Almost everybody over there is an office-type.
My office is on the casual side of business casual. I tend to be a smidge dressier than some of my coworkers, but I'm still not terribly formal unless I've got a meeting. this is almost all maternity stuff, but it's pretty much identical to my regular wardrobe, just bigger in the belleh. It's all the pictures I took this week and last, so it's a pretty good cross-section of what I wear.
Wawa - where did you get that purple dress? It looks awesome on you! Also, we have a similar body type, I think, so I'm wondering for myself ...
ETA - please don't tell me its maternity.
it's not actually. It's just cut so that for now it works with the bump. Once my belly is bigger I think it'll get too short in the front though. also the waist band area gets all squished up, and I'm pretty sure that when I have a legitamately large belly it'll annoy me.
But anyway, it's from target and I've had it for a few years. They usually have something similar though. I love dresses like that. The navy one (second one down) is a similar dress also from target from a different season - different sleeves, but same general cut and same awesome wrinkle free comfy fabric.
Post by bunnymendelbaum on Sept 6, 2012 12:53:49 GMT -5
wawa - you are so cute! Way better than I did in my office PG clothes! My issue is that I can't do the empire waist. The line right under my breasts is soo sensitive when pregnant, I can't have anything there, no matter how slight. Rules out about 85% of maternity clothes. (and my reason for no bra)
wawa - you are so cute! Way better than I did in my office PG clothes! My issue is that I can't do the empire waist. The line right under my breasts is soo sensitive when pregnant, I can't have anything there, no matter how slight. Rules out about 85% of maternity clothes. (and my reason for no bra)
Thanks!
As for the sensitive band area - wow, yeah, that would kill my wardrobe. All of my dresses would be off the table. And my two favorite dressy maternity shirts (not PIPed) And the no bra thing would be...interesting...since I've gone up a cup size already.
Also I'm hoping for another mild winter so I can just rock dresses and tights once I get a bump (and am not just a fatass).
Bunny-OMG the no empire waist thing would kill me. Although I have a case of what I call lightning nipples at the moment and that is no fun by the end of the day.
Just last week we made a dress code change at work and I'm loving it! I work for a small non-profit association. Just me and my boss at the office. We were wearing business casual but decided that it was stupid last week and now we wear jeans with nice shirts. If we have a board meeting and other important meeting we wear business attire. The switch to jeans has made me so happy, I hate dress pants. I do wear dresses a lot in the summer and will probably continue to do that.
I typically do business casual - dresses, skirt + top, dress pants + top/cardigan, etc. If I'm just going into the office and meeting clients, or if I'm showing houses where I know there'll be a lot of property walking, I just wear dark jeans and a nice top.
Right now I am 14 weeks pregnant and not showing enough for maternity clothes but feeling lumpy in regular clothes, so it's a lot of flowy dresses and skirts.
A lot of what wawa, wop and sjh wrote about just a tad dressier.
I work in a school and we have a pretty formal dress code for a casual public school in the middle class midwest.
I have Express Editor pants in 3 colors and pretty much live in those. Dressier tops, sweaters and mix and match cardigan sets. I also have a lot skirts from Target. I have quite a few sweater type dresses for the winter I wear with boots and leggings. I also 2 pair of CK jeans that are dark I save for Fridays.
I lean towards grandma footwear so I'm no help there.
I also like makeup and at least do foundation and mascara before I leave.
On barn days, the oldest, crappiest jeans and sweatshirt I can find. I still do a bit of undereye gel and concealer though...otherwise I look dead.
Express, Macy's, Target Herberger's, NY*CO, JCP and TJMAXX with a little A. Eagle for the fun stuff is what makes up most of my wardrobe.
LOL. It's the only pose where I don't have gigantor hips. I mean, I DO have gigantic hips, relatively speaking. But at least its not as glaringly obvious.
Also, thanks! I was so excited this year when I lost some weight and this shirt fit again. It makes me look pregnant (although I am not), but it's SO comfortable.