If you’re brand-new to pregnancy — or even if you’ve been down this road prior to — maternity design can easily feel love an inscrutable challenge: The old stuff doesn’t match and a whole brand-new wardrobe simply isn’t in the budget along with a little one on the way.
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Rachel Zoe along with her husband Rodger Berman and their two sons.
In addition to being a designer and celebrity stylist, Rachel Zoe is likewise a mom to two boys and has actually been pregnant two times in the Hollywood spotlight. And she’s got a brand-new maternity collection out this summer along with Pea in the Pod — so she knows a thing or two concerning dressing the bump along with grace. TODAY design spoke along with this hot mama to discover out her top pregnancy fashion tips.
Find your uniform
“discover points that truly job in to your life that you understand are a safe bet — and you understand they look good,” Zoe said. So, as opposed to expensive, special-occasion items, purchase a couple of hard-functioning staples that match your lifestyle and use them on rotation.
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Rachel Zoe admires the baby bump on actress Molly Sims at an event in Beverly Hills, California.
Maybe it’s that suitable pair of black leggings, a breezy versatile tank or mixing go-to black trousers along with comfortable boots. It’s concerning streamlining your wardrobe free of filling your closet along with clothes you’ll just use for a short time … and steer clear of overspending in the process.
In the winter, Zoe said, the essential is layering these pieces so that you can easily constantly discover that comfort zone as quickly as your physique surges from also cold to also hot unpredictably. Yet just what concerning those of us suffering through 3rd trimesters in the blazing heat of summer? If that sounds every one of also familiar, decide just what makes you feel comfortable and confident and just embrace it, Zoe suggested.
“You have actually to decide, ‘Am I going to use form-fitting points and embrace and reveal off my bump?’ Or, ‘Am I feeling simply bigger every one of over and wanting to use lightweight, flowy points along with movement?'”
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There’s not a right or wrong approach, she said, since no two pregnancies are the same. “It’s hard to put one rule on a pregnancy — I carried so differently along with the 2 of my boys,” she said. “It’s rather a lot concerning exactly how you feel and just what your physique is looking and feeling like. (the 2 approaches to style) look equally as as good. Pregnancy is beautiful!”
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That said, she allows that pregnancy doesn’t constantly feel beautiful. So if you’re uncomfortable along with modifications in one location of your body, play up an additional instead.
“constantly accentuate your ideal portion throughout your pregnancy,” she said. “I had friends that had bigger busts and swollen arms — so they wore mini dresses every one of the time since their legs looked great. If you have actually edema, you may hope to cover your legs and reveal your neck, shoulders and décolletage.”
Be bold
Beyond that, she said, remain real to your personal design — and spare your wallet — by turning to accessories.
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For a dressy event in Los Angeles late in her pregnancy, Zoe remembers wearing a easy navy dress along with a “necklace that took up half of my top body!” she said. “I was love well my clothes don’t fit, Yet massive jewelry (does).”
She suggests a statement bag or huge earrings can easily likewise serve to reveal off personal design — and group a glamorous punch — even as quickly as couple of others points feel comfortable. And they’ll match for years, not simply weeks, in the future.
In the end, Zoe says that taking a couple of additional minutes to dress that gorgeous bump in design will certainly not just make you look better, Yet feel much better and much more confident at a time full of modifications and, for lots of of us, insecurities.
The trick is to delight in the fleeting phase of pregnancy. “Pregnancy does end — (so) embrace the beauty of that moment,” she said. “simply go along with it and don’t grab also caught up in the vanity of it all.”
Oh, and as quickly as in doubt? “Put on some lipstick,” she said. It constantly fits!
Alesandra Dubin is a Los Angeles-based writer and the founder of the lifestyle blog Homebody in Motion. Follow her on Facebook, Instagram, Google+ and Twitter.
