something tells me this would be good post-baby

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[http://www.theoutnet.com/product/23393 top]]

easy access for bfing (wear tank underneath, pull to one side yet leave tummy covered)

slouchy enough over the tummy to be forgiving of post-natal flab

bright enough to cheer up the misery that is mothering a newborn in the gloomy winter months

what say you lot?

try again...

Dry clean only - maybe not so good. Although I do put dry clean items into my washing machine!

I have such a good (and cheap) dry cleaner around the corner. And the less laundry I have to hang up around the house in the winter months, the better as far as I am concerned!! especially with another baby in cloth nappies!!

do you like it though?

Yes I do like it. Love that colour.

I think it looks like something my mum would wear and that is really, really not a good thing. Sorry but I'm sure you want honest opinions? Feel free to disregard

really? Even with skinny jeans and boots and all that?

Anyway, am going to buy this while I think about it.

Now I love his stuff! You lucky girl

I've just remembered we are Facebook friends! Will defo suit you!

Well I admit I can't imagine my mum wearing it with skinny jeans. Maybe I am just thinking of how it would look on me. I am very petite and it would just look like a huge blue sack on me. I don't do shapeless. Now my mum does....and she would look a lot better if she didn't.

I love Marc Jacobs too but the diffusion range is such better value than the main range ... admittedly that dress is a bit of a long-range, fingers-crossed purchase since baby is due in September ... but hopefully by Christmas? Or at least springtime.

Provincial- how would your mum wear it? You have put the fear in me. I am tall and ahem, shapely (pear-shapely that is , LOL)

hf - have you changed your screen name? Msg me on FB so I know who you are!!

Well, I bought them. Sod it, can always send 'em back.

And the Outnet very helpfully tells you how much you;ve 'saved' once your order is complete, just to assuage your consumerist guilt somewhat.....

Have messaged you on FB!

My mum? LOL she would probably wear a polo neck under it, thus emphasising her matronly bosom. With a pair of black trousers, boot cut, because you don't want anything to clash with that sprightly top. And black loafers. Ugh. Poor mum, she is 5" tall and almost as wide these days

I can imagine it suiting a taller person.

LOL Provincial! Okay so I feel better now - think I am going to be able to pull it off with a bit more aplomb than that. Bless your mum

I feel really disloyal now. I should add that she is also very successful and content with her appearance and dress sense, so who am I to judge?

She was a nightmare of embarrassing clothing when I was a teenager though! We often laugh about it now.

oh god, not at all. I didn't mean to sound disrespectful.

My mum can be a right shocker too. Worse when I was a teenager. She has kind of succumbed to the combined peer-pressure of me and my sister now, and looks a bit better for it. But I have no idea where my sister and I get our obsession with clothes/ fashion from - clearly not our mother, she was useless as a style mentor!!

No no you didn't. I just suddenly felt bad. I think we are both probably over compensating for what we suffered as youngsters My mum always wanted me to be the tomboy she was never allowed to be by her mum, but unfortunately I was a girly girl and always have been.

yes - going the complete opposite way to our mothers. My mum was very much of the 'wear it until it's worn out" and "never buy it unless it's been reduced by 90%" mentality. She dares to speak with pride of the fact that she used to save the good leg of a laddered pair of tights and wear it with another good leg (thus two waistbands) to save money.

I mean, honestly.

Consequently, I spend way too much on clothes and shoes and have wardrobes fit to bust. Granted, I buy lots 2nd hand and discounted, but even so....