Help! Completely unfashionable newly post-natal needs help with outfit for school reunion!

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So I pretty much live in jeans/cords, band tshirts and converse but I have to attend my 10 year school reunion in two weeks. There's no stated dress code but I went to a rather posh all-girls school and most of my classmates are now accountants, lawyers and Doctors (as opposed to my first-level manager in civil service).

I'm already massively nervous about this and as I delivered my daughter on May 17th I am feeling a little on the frumpy and fat side as they're all skinny blonde goddess types. I don't want to immediately feel uncomfortable because of poor judgement on the clothing front!

I'm not sure what size I am on top but I'd estimate a 16 (I have 36F boobage) and my size 18 pre-pregnancy trousers are fitting comfortably so I'm hoping that by the time this reunion comes round I'll be into a 16. I'm 5'8" if that's any help too.

Can you help? What would you wear or recommend?

For my kids christening I just went into Monsoon and asked for help, they basically dressed me and I looked great. It was when Monsoon had a lot of nice stuff...helped me as I was so out of the loop...can you pick a store you really like and just let them sort you out?

not sure of your style or colour choice but how about a LBD something like this with splash of colour cover up and these
If you didn't want to go for the red, stick to black shrug and silver shoes possibilities

I love the LBD idea but my belly is still in the jibbly jelly post-birth state and I don't think it's likely to get better any time soon! I should have mentioned that I'll be taking DD with me and she'll need access to my norks at some point over the evening so separates are probably the way to go?

Do you really want to go ? I cannot imagine taking a tiny baby and feeling uncomfortable/wobbly is anyone's idea of a fun night out.
I'd go to the next one when your back to your old self and babe can be left with a sitter.

I do really want to go, the body woes are just a little niggle at the back of my mind rather than something that's overwhelming me

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Many congrats on your new baby!

Hum, I had a very similar problem about a school reunion and it was difficult enough deciding what to wear when I hadn't just had a baby! You should definitely go if you want to see everyone though- sod feeling wobbly, who cares about that in the great scheme of things? However, I must admit that I wouldn't realistically have made it to any kind of social event with such a tiny baby- in fact, you are doing better than me if you are regularly escaping from your dressing gown at all.

What I would say was that there was that most people seemed to go under rather than over-dressed. We're talking jeans, maybe with heels, and then some colour on top. Now you don't say what the venue is, but I would think you should just go comfy in your fave clothes, and maybe treat yourself to a blow dry and a nice new piece of jewellery. In terms of bf there are lots of nice special tops eg. JoJo Maman Bebe, Blooming Marvellous, but also have you tried just wearing a belly band and your fave 'normal' top?

Be warned that some people can be total arses about breastfeeding. It sounds like we went to a similar kind of school so I should warn you! At my school reunion in a pizza restaurant, a woman was discreetly feeding at the next table. Three old girls started complaining about it being gross and how they couldn't eat their meals with it going on. Obviously not all non-mothers are such berks, but you will find the chasm between mothers and non-mothers is very large, and nothing shows this up like a school reunion where everyone has forged different ways in life.

Heated I love that!

Wobbegong This is baby #4 so I have no choice but to be up and at 'em ;) The reunion is at the school and it's only for two hours so there's every chance that if I feed her immediately beforehand I could pace her out until afterwards.

I like your idea though, I can definitely spring to a new top (my pre-pregnancy stuff is a bit hit-and-miss to be honest) and a blow dry would be luxurious (and still cheaper than a new dress/shrug/shoes/bag etc).