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Little Black Dresses (the Slightly Larger, Maternity Options)

babysugar — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:00:17 -0700

Any woman will tell you the LBD is a critical wardrobe piece for work and play. You don't have to let go of your favorite always fashionable crutch just because your belly is growing and you're not-so-lil any more - plenty of designers have pretty and chic maternity LBDs.

One of my favorites right now is the abs one shoulder dress (on sale for $150) because it has the same feel of the flowing Maxi dresses Gwen Stefani and Angelina Jolie wore while pregnant with their now infants.

Of course, there are always options with sleeves, shorter hemlines and intricate designs that add a lil flare to the staple.

The Wrap Dress - $165.00	cadeau Stretch Poplin Halter Dress - $200.00
Abs One Shoulder Dress - $295.00	Bump Couture Maternity 'Audrey' Knit Dress - $88.00
Olian Maternity Twist Front Matte Jersey Dress - $88.00	Maternal America Maternity Beaded Dress - $128.00
Liz Lange® for Target® Jersey Dress with Adjustable Tie - Black - $29.99	Liz Lange® for Target® 3/4-Sleeve Wrap Dress - Black - $23.99
Liz Lange® for Target® Lawn Neckline Jersey Dress - Black - $29.99	cadeau Stretch Velvet Side Shirred Dress - $375.00
Maternal America Maternity Crochet Trim Flutter Dress - $170.00	Chiffon Dress - $265.00
3/4 Sleeve Faux Wrap Maternity Dress - $88.00	Sleeveless Empire Waist Maternity Dress - $88.00
Chiffon Clip Dot Dress - $39.98	Silk Ruffle Neck Dress With Smocking - $118.00
3/4 Sleeve Wrap Maternity Dress - $34.98	Childish Maternity 'Ellie' Knit Dress - $88.00
Crossfront Dress - $195.00	Maternity Ruffle Sleeve Dress by Olian - $98.00
Sleeveless Faux Wrap Maternity Dress - $325.00	Sleeveless Linen Dress - $175.00
Career Sweater Dress - $88.00	Wrap Style Dress - $88.00
Jersey Dress With Charmeuse Band - $128.00	Sleeveless Empire Waist Maternity Dress - $325.00
Olian Maternity Beaded Neck Dress - $118.00	Spaghetti Strap Ruched Maternity Dress - $325.00
Japanese Weekend Maternity Reversible Dress - $160.00	Sleeveless Beaded Detail Maternity Dress - $148.00
Velvet Long Sleeve Lace Dress - $275.00	Beaded Chiffon Dress - $325.00
Pleated Casual Dress - $68.00	Sleeveless Empire Waist Maternity Dress - $148.00
The Audrey Dress - $275.00	Abs Mini Pleated Bubble Dress - $195.00
Casual Knit Dress - $68.00

Guess the Mom Behind the Maxi Dress

babysugar — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:40:09 -0700

Pregnant ladies are in luck because the maxi dress is in style this season. Keeping the figure a secret, new moms and expectant ladies have been spotted sporting the garbs alike. See if you can guess which hot mamas are behind the flowy frocks.

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What mom feels like "Just a Girl" in these colorful dresses?

Nicole Richie's Maternity Now Available at A Pea in the Pod!

LilSugar — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:05:25 -0700

Go bohemian chic with babe - Nicole Richie's maternity designs just hit the racks at A Pea in the Pod! The exclusive line, "Nicole," allows expectant mamas to mimic the celeb's signature style. Pregnant women will find 14 pieces designed by Richie, including a flowy peasant top, maxi dresses, and tees with asymetric hems and braiding (ranging from $50 to $150) that showcase a mama-to-be's cuves. Richie explained:

“You really feel like you have to change your whole wardrobe. And that’s the last thing a woman wants to go through. So I really tried to make this line to get women excited about wearing clothes.”

Already mother to Harlow, Richie is expecting her second child with partner Joel Madden later this Summer. She starred in the ad campaign for the apparel, which will only be available through the end of the year. Check out all the items!

To see more of Nicole Richie's new maternity line, read more.

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Nicole Richie Brings Hippie-Chic Styles to Pea in the Pod

LilSugar — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:57:47 -0700

Next month expectant women who are fans of hippie-chic styles can move beyond vintage clothing stores to a new shopping resource. Known for her Bohemian baby-bump style, Nicole Richie is working with A Pea in the Pod on a collection of maxi dresses, tops, and bottoms that reflect her fashion sensibilities.

The mother to Harlow and a second babe due this Summer is also the face of the line, having played model at a recent ad photo shoot. Pregnant ladies will have to gather up the garments fast since the collection will only be available from August through January.

Something Blue For the Expectant Wedding Guest

LilSugar — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:00:00 -0700

What is cooler than sporting a shade of blue for Summer weddings? While it's easy to blend in by slipping on a black dress, expectant mamas should strut style and their burgeoning bellies in beautiful hues. Take a cue from the wedding theme, "something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue" and select a stunning azure gown that will have fellow guests doing double takes. With dresses available in all shades from blueberry to midnight and flattering maxi, empire, wrap and tank styles – the only hardship you'll have is finding equally stunning, comfortable shoes!

Multiples Baby Shower: Attire

babysugar — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:00:44 -0700

Most mothers-to-be start to feel the discomfort of pregnancy during the homestretch - especially those carrying two or more babies. When being showered with gifts and adoration, the celebrated mommy should plan to wear something that makes her look and, more importantly, feel fabulous. Since comfort is the name of the game, a whimsical print maxi dress paired with elegant sandals will give the bodacious bod room to move and lounge as she sees fit. Add some flair with a timeless set of baubles and bangles, and mama's good to go!

To see more sassy maxi dresses, just read more.

Splendid Strapless Empire Seam Maternity Dress - $210.00	Olian Maternity Maxi Dress - $158.00
Spaghetti Strap Smocked Maternity Dress - $225.00	Matty M Spaghetti Strap Faux Wrap Maternity Dress - $128.00
Olian Maternity Floral Halter Maxi Dress - $168.00	Olian Maternity Dahlia Print Maxi Dress - $148.00
Spaghetti Strap Smocked Maternity Dress - $148.00

Baby Bump: More of Me Maternity

LilSugar — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:00:40 -0700

While most women are pulling lighter clothes out of their closets in anticipation of warmer weather, mamas-to-be due in Summer and Fall are searching for the ultimate items to take them through the rest of their pregnancies. More of Me Maternity's dresses and tunics are designed to do just that. Their "Take It to The Maxi" dress ($249) mimics the maxi dress trend seen on non-pregnant pals, but is made from 100% Modal knit, ensuring it remains soft and comfortable through multiple washings. It even features wide straps and a "modesty panel" across the back to hide the supportive bras we need during those nine months. Designed by DC-native, and former politico Jessica Boulanger, the line also includes shorter styles that can be worn as shirts or dresses.

Baby Bump: Spring Maternity Dresses

LilSugar — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:00:19 -0700

One of the benefits of being pregnant through Spring and Summer is the plethora of comfortable, loose dresses to cover my expanding belly. No need to decide between over-the-belly or under-the-belly pant panels, dresses speed up the morning dressing routine by eliminating the need to assemble outfits.

Taking their cue from the runway trends, this season's maternity dresses embrace everything from the maxi style seen here in the Gap's smocked empire dress, to colorblock trends to perennial maternity favorites such as wraps and florals.

Interview With Liz Lange: Pregnancy Mogul Relaunches Line!

LilSugar — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 06:00:45 -0800

The woman who introduced the world to chic, form-fitting designs that celebrate the pregnant woman's bod is shaking things up again! Six years after introducing her maternity line to the masses through her collaboration with Target, Liz Lange is debuting more beautiful duds to flatter burgeoning bellies.

The Brown University grad and former Vogue editor, is relaunching her high-end line of maternity fashions after taking a year-long hiatus to reassess her business. The new Liz Lange Collection, which hits maternity shops and Nordstrom.com this week, includes dresses, silk blouses, skirts, pants, sweaters, jackets, and for the first time - denim!

The designer took some time to chat with us about her latest line, how to get the most bang for your buck with a maternity wardrobe and the ways she juggles work and motherhood.

lilsugar: Tell us about the new line. What are you most excited about?

Liz Lange: Even though I adore the collection that we do for Target, my roots and my beginnings are always in the high-end collection. That’s where I started it all and that’s where I got to work one-on-one with customers and with all of the celebrities I dressed over the years. We took two seasons off and so I'm just so excited to be relaunching in general. It’s really a continuation of everything we always did. We’ve always been about really, really wearable clothing even when we do trends, its always in a pretty and wearable way and not too out there. Really good quality stretch fabrics, clean silhouettes and classic American style, very uptown NYC, where I got my start.

To see the rest of Liz Lange's answer and her thoughts on the pregnant figure, read more.

One thing that is somewhat new about it is that I was never able to do denim in the collection before. It was always something that we would offer in our shops, we would just take in other brands, but I was never able to source it properly. So we found this phenomenal denim resource and now we are doing all Liz Lange branded denim and it comes in like every different wash – from the lightest to the darkest – all different silhouettes – the pencil, the boot, all of them – and it has our signature chunky gold hardware and all the rivets all the detail is Liz Lange branded and of course it is all super-stretchy. So I’m really excited about that.

I have a personal love of dresses and I think we’ve done a lot of really great dresses this Spring in all different ways. A lot of stretch silk dresses. We’ve done short dresses, little shifts, wear to work dresses, long, maxi-style dresses, short dresses with matching jackets that feel very 1960’s clean and classic - great to wear to work. I always think of our collection as dressing a pregnant woman in all of her needs. I find that so many pregnant woman today [are] working women, executives, and I think we have always been a great resource for that. We have a lot of great suiting, so its not just about great denim and t-shirts and little dresses, although we have all of that.

lilsugar: Women tend to complain about their figures during pregnancy, but you celebrate the expectant body with your designs?

Liz Lange: That’s just what I’ve always believed. I feel that pregnancy is a really, really beautiful time and I do think that the world has kind of come around to that - with the celebrities showing off their bodies on the red carpet all the time now. I started the line over ten years ago because I saw a friend wearing maternity clothing. I hadn’t been pregnant yet, and when she took off the maternity clothing and just put on one of her old sweater that was stretchy and still kind of working, I thought, my God, she looks so much tinier in that little sweater where I’m just seeing her belly than in that big schemata she walked in wearing. So I am a firm believer and that is why I have always used so many stretch fabrics because I don’t want to have to make things oversized, but I understand that a woman’s body is constantly growing, so stretch fabric allows it to be a little fitted and still grow with you.

lilsugar: Were you comfortable with your own body during your pregnancies?

Liz Lange: I certainly wore all of my own clothing. My children are 8 and 10. My first pregnancy was during the first year of my business. It was a very small business back then and I only had about eight designs on the line and then with my daughter two years later it had grown quite a bit. I would say it was with both pregnancies that really helped me define and grow my business. In the beginning I was very inspired by Donna Karan. [She] had her eight easy pieces, and I felt that my collection, when I first got started, would just be these eight easy pieces and it came in like navy, chocolate brown or charcoal gray and they were very, very fine Italian stretch wool and I did a cashmere twin set that was one of the eight pieces and it was literally that you just picked the color and if you had the eight pieces you could just mix and match and that would be your wardrobe. And that still, in a weird way, is the essence of my collection. But when I was pregnant I discovered, low and behold, eight pieces is not enough. 'Maybe today I don’t feel like wearing a pencil skirt, I want to wear a short A-line skirt.' Or 'Hey I feel like wearing a t-shirt and I didn’t have one on the line.' So I started to grow the line based on my personal needs. At that time I didn’t want there ever to be any prints or patterns and then I realized, 'Gee, I’m pregnant for nine months and sometimes I feel like wearing a print or a pattern.' So all of that stuff evolved during my pregnancy.

Check out what Liz Lange had to say about shopping for a maternity wardrobe in tough economic times and what to expect from her Target collection in tomorrow's post. View the fabulous selections from her new line below.

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Take All of Lil's Quizzes For Loads of Fun!

babysugar — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:00:23 -0700

Guess the Kiddie Character!	Guess the Celebaby!	Guess the Bump!
Guess Who's Behind the Stroller!	Guess Who's Wearing the Maxi Dress!	Match the Celebaby to the Shoes!

Sleeveless Empire Waist Maternity Dress - $88.00	Liz Lange for Target Scoopneck Dress - Navy - $23.99
Midi Kimono Wrap Dress - $249.00	Vintage Knit Maternity And Nursing Dress - $88.00
Juicy Couture Maternity Jersey Tiered Dress - $198.00	Maternity Crochet-Trim Maxi Dresses - $29.50
LA Made Maternity 'Maxine' Tissue Weight Jersey Dress - $88.00	Juicy Couture Maternity Cotton/Silk Dress - $268.00
Short Sleeve Smocked Maternity Dress - $78.00	Spaghetti Strap Empire Waist Maternity Dress - $108.00