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Style AMA: maternity, color, poshmark, evolving styles and more

Style AMA: maternity, color, poshmark, evolving styles and more

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Sep 12, 2023
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In this month’s AMA (ask me anything), I’m changing it up a bit this time and answering more questions with shorter answers. 

I'd love some ideas on ways to develop a small and effective maternity wardrobe!

My main advice for maternity dressing is to add as you go. We all want to buy ahead, but for this situation (and for kid’s clothes as well), it’s better to wait until you need the item to buy it. Otherwise, your body (or your kid’s) may not be the size you expected it to be at that stage. So buy some leggings, a dress, a couple tops, maybe some jeans to start with. Layering pieces will work the whole time and for after as well, feel free to get a few of those. Then, when those things start to make your skin crawl, add in a few new items. Personally, I had to buy all new stuff in month 8 because none of my maternity stuff fit at that point. Go laugh at my early, early blog posts - these are all the posts about my maternity wardrobe.

I don’t know if it’s in your wheelhouse but styling s…

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