Plus size Maternity clothes help

Re: Plus size Maternity clothes help

• violaplayer member

  June 2011

  I got a lot of my clothes at Target. The other thing I would recommend, especially for shirts - Big/Tall Mens sizes. A lot of times they were cheaper than maternity.

   

  My local thrift store was also good to me while pregnant. 

  

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• felinity

  June 2011

  Motherhood Maternity has plus sized clothing in some of their stores - up to 3X or 4X.  They may have a wider selection online.  I went there a couple of times to try things on and figure out what size fit me (and still had room for my growing twin belly). JC Penney and Old Navy sell plus-sized maternity wear online.

  I actually had good luck trolling my local Craigslist for people selling their plus-sized maternity wardrobe. For $100, I bought 5 or 6 pairs of pants, 8 or 9 cute tops,  and a couple of great dresses with tags still attached. Oh, and a brand new bathing suit (tags still attached)!  A few of the pieces were too small for me, but almost everything fit, and I figure I can probably eBay the too-small pieces and make back some of my investment.

   
  

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• jjcald26 member

  June 2011

  I'm also a plus size mom to be.  I didn't have any luck at Target, but got all of my maternity clothes either through Old Navy or Motherhood Maternity.  The down-side of ON was that you can only purchase their plus size things online and alot of their stuff runs a bit big.  Good for ON is that I was able to return it to my local store (even if the item said you couldn't).  MM seemed a little more expensive for some things as compared to ON, but good quality.  I actually do spend alot of time in my husband's oversized t-shirts, but I'm slowly outgrowing some of those!  GL!
  

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• fallbride110406 member

  June 2011

  Ditto Motherhood Maternity and Old Navy. I'm a 20/22 and usually wore a 1-2x at Motherhood and a 2x at Old Navy. I found the size charts on their websites very accurate too.

  

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• bsmead member

  June 2011

  Not only am I plus size but I am also rather tall (and have a long torso)  I found that even with plus size maternity shirts I outgrew them in length.  What I have found that works the best is to buy tunic-like tops.  On a shorter person they would just look like tunics or dresses but on me they look like shirts   I have even found some clearance tank tops or tunics from Lanebryant and have used those!  I can still find clothes at regular non-maternity stores as long as they are long enough and stretchy enough to cover the bump!  I am so grateful to be pregnant while all those things are in style!!!

  My plan b was to buy some cute empire waist dresses and have my mom just hem them up to look a little more like shirts then dresses.

   hth!!

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• newsbaby

  June 2011

  Motherhood and Old Navy ran big for me which was a good thing.

  TTC since 8/07 DX - Severe MFI/azoospermia & MTHFR/ TESEs found sperm - 7/08 & 6/09/ 12/08 - IVF#1 - BFN/ 6/09 - IVF #2 - cancelled due to OHSS risk (had retrieval)/ 7/09 - FET #1 - BFN/ 9/09 - FET #2 - BFN/ 11/09 - IVF #3 with new RE cancelled twice - 10/09 & 11/09/ 1/10 - IVF #3 take 3 - BFN/ 4/10 - IVF #4 - first ever BFP on 5/13/10!!! 108 @ 10dp3dt/ 2nd beta 311!/ sono on 5/28/10 said TWINS!!!!

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• missfire member

  July 2011

  Lane Bryant carried maternity clothes 3 years ago when I was pregnant with DS1, so that might be something you could find used on eBay or Craigslist too. The Gap online carries some too.

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