maternity wear questionnaire, please help!

[clareh30]

Hello ladies,

I am studying for an MA in Fashion Merchandising Management and am currently working on a project that focuses on creating a maternitywear range. In order to get a good idea of what you the potential users and buyers of maternitywear think of what is currently out there and what could be improved, I was hoping some of you wouldn?t mind completing a quick questionnaire.
If you can participate please click on the link below, when you are finished click done and the results are automatically collated. The questionnaire will be available for the next week and close on Tuesday 8th June.
Thank you in advance for your help! Clare Harding.

www.surveymonkey.com/s/C3TMDXW

Done- the fit and quality of some maternity clothes very suspect. I almost wept at the cheap shoddy nature of some of them when i first looked. Trying to find smart office wear was hardest.

Done. I hate online shopping but only know one shop within 50 miles of me selling anything and even on a weekend in Glasgow no shops sold much in the way of choice

Done the survey. Maybe I was lucky, but I only went up 1 dress size during the pregnancy (apart from the huge bump, of course). In the legs and bust all my normal clothes fitted me. Was just hard to find things which I was happy with and that I'd be able to wear after the baby was born too.

Would have done the survey but I hadn't bought from any of the shops listed in question 5 and it wouldn't let me not tick any of the boxes (there doesn't seem to be a tick box for "other"). Anyway, I've bought most of mine second-hand on Ebay (Seraphine and Crave): the new stuff I can afford is so shoddy and such horrible fabric (not to mention the awful slogans) that I haven't actually bought anything in the shops except bras.

Done. I've done most of my maternity shopping at Gap, and though it's a bit more expensive than some places, the quality is generally pretty good, and it's surprisingly cheap compared with their normal range.

Isabella Oliver has been totally brilliant for nice work wear.

Forgot to say that until the last few weeks, I was stll doing OK with normal-range empire-line tunics in stretchy fabrics a couple of sizes bigger than normal. The only thing I really had to get round the 14 week mark was maternity jeans/trousers.

Done. Maternity wear provision in my local shops is truly dire. And I remember trying to buy some trousers from DP and Mothercare when I was around 20 weeks and finding them so huge they would still be swamping me now at 37 weeks. What's that all about?! Who designs this god awful stuff?

Hi Ladies,
Thank you for your responses, they have been really very helpful. I am going to close the questionnaire now as I have 50 responses which is plenty.
Thanks again!

Oh - I just did it before I saw your last post!

Not to worry, glad you had plenty of response.