Size 16/18, short and pregnant - just bought a LONG denim skirt, is there ANYTHING to wear with it that may salvage it?

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Probably shouldn't have posted here, but chat moves so quick. Am 6 months pregnant and in my pregnant haze bought a LONG denim skirt, kinda flares out in traingle panels. I just tried it on and I look like a health visitor Is there anything that can 'lift' it a little (I was thinking open white shirt with white vest/strappy sort of thing) or is it just too...naff. I wouldn't ask but it's soooo comfy

Erm, vest top, long cardi and a scarf?

It doesn't sound like a great skirt tbh!

Long denim skirts are very mumsy - could you take it back and change it for something else?

Sorry - probably not what you want to hear.

Two years ago, in a post-natal daze I bought the exact same skirt and wore it to death. I had my practical head on and I thought "no need to shave legs, good for kneeling and crawling, doesn't show up stains etc etc."

I kind of got my fashion mojo back last autumn, and I can't believe I even bought the skirt, let alone wear it! It was mumsy, frumpy and generally horrid. It went straight to a charity shop, where no doubt a 70-year-old dear will pounce on it in glee (it being just the type of skirt a 70-year-old would wear!)

take it back, it will bring you down every time you wear it

its bringing me down just thinking about it

Cut it up and make into dusters.

Make some novelty cushion covers.

Whatever you do don't wear the bloody thing. I spent the last 3 months of my pregnancy in a fricking denim pinafore dress and loathed the sight of myself every time I looked in the mirror.

It will add to the self loathing if you don't lose the baby weight immediately and you have to wear the denim monstrosity once your baby is born (you may recognise the voice of experience in this).

Denim skirts and dresses are vile on everyone except 18 month old babies.

Take it back or ebay. You obviously don't like it, and will never like yourself in it - so get rid!

OMFG
Get rid or you will be arrested for crimes against fadhion even with hormones to blame.
at HV

take it back, or ebay it, or get it taken up to knee length as a last resort

Thankyou! I think'll make some cracking cushion covers for the boys room actually, glad I only bought it from ebay

My maternity wardrobe in the early mid 90s

Pinafore denim dress
Black palazzo (remember those bastards) pants
Cream shirt
Navy blue t shirt with 'I'm in the mummy club!'
Maternity jeans which looked like the worst jeans in the world, the kind of jeans which teens would point and laugh at (and I was a teen myself), with a navy blue elsticated gusset from hell.

Great.

Cut it to knee length and hey presto! This season's must have.

Although looking like a health visitor is hard to get back from

O shite, I have been oggling some 'palazzo' trousers from ASOS...

Christ I thought palazzo pants died a death in 1996.

They must just still exist in the hezbolah splinter faction of maternity fashionware.

My eyes!!!!!

But they look sooooooooo streeeeetchy...

Look - you're short as am I - and those trousers are too wide. Lordy - I sound stern but long denim skirts and palazzo trousers. . .

However I lived in these during and immediately after my pregnancies. Similar but not quite so voluminous.

getorf -

I had a pair very similar to that link in 2006!!

Kept them to do yoga in until the following year when DH not so subtly hinted that the 'comfy trousers'really had to go...

For £20 I may buy some for 'round the house then, tracksuit bottoms are too depressing and even I cannot bring myself to wear the denim tent for housework. I do like those white company ones, though I'd have to have white and they look the sort you need 'special' pants with.

those pallazzos will make your legs look like Nelly The Elephant

Palazzos and denim dresses - they suit nobody.

I am 6 foot tall and they made me look like an oompa loompa in training (only less orange).

Vile creations. I burned them in a ritual ceremony (not true, but I imagined doing so).

The white co ones come in navy, dark grey and black as well as white. SPG10 gets 20% off.

Not even white palazzos? I had visions of looking all St. tropez in them. I did see some white linens in mothercare mind, but they didn't look as streeeeeeetchy

These are nice and cheap!

And this is what I would be wearing if pregnant, cutest little maternity dress ever.