those smock type tops I'm seeing everywhere.....

[Tommy]

would they make me look like I am still pregnant even though DS3 was born 2 months ago?

errm how do you look generally?

if you have a big bosom go for empire line. if not then scoop neck with small gathers and make sure it doesn't end on your widest point.

No, because you can;t tell if someone wearing a smock has a washboard under there or a slight pod

That's the beauty of them imo, and i have several.

generally I look OK (I think ) - normally a size 12 but post baby am in a size 16 trousers and have enormous norks. Tummy is just flabby but has gone down quite a lot - nothing that a few hundred sit ups won't remedy

I am a size sixteen with big norks and whenever I wearone of my smock tops I get asked about my pregnancy so I don't wearthem anymore

I think they will be tomorrow's ponchos .....

I disagree with the can't tell if you have a washboard or a slight paunch under a smock

I think unless you are extremely thin with small breasts a smock top will make you look matronly

some fashion (if not most fashion) are best left to 14 year old pre-pubescents or those poor deluded fools who feel that size 0 is something to aspire to

who wants to be a clothes horse?

in summation Tommy .. avoid like the plague

Don't do it if you have big norks. I spent a very depressing morning last week trying on tops and looking progressively more pregnant in them. I am short and norky and there is nothing out there for me this season - tunics out too.

I was telling dh about it afterwards and he said 'oh are they fashionable then?' he had been out on a business lunch and someone they hadn't seen for a while was wearing one and they all talked for ages afterwards about whether she was pregnant.

thanks all for your honesty and good advice!

Can anyone please tell me what sort of tops I could wear then? Currently wearing polo shirts and plain T shirts I bought after D1 was born (5 years ago) and feel decidedly frumpy and also need something smarter to wear for DS3's baptism in a few weeks

Thanks

Not that I'm an expert on fashion, but I do have ample norkage, and a "generous" tummy, and I find that wrapover-type tops are good, particularly if they are patterned. In fact, only if they are patterned...

never tried a wrap top except a maternity one which was lovely actually although that one would make me look pregnant of course.....

will check them out