Wearing: Gap Maternity Dress

I've birthed three children, but didn't buy this maternity dress until after my three pregnancies, when I saw it on a very un-pregnant little sales-clerk at GAP. When I asked where she bought it, she whispered conspiratorially,

"Go upstairs to the Maternity section. It's on clearance for $12 right now!"

I obediently marched myself upstairs and fell in love with the print, cut, and comfort factor. The only alteration I made was to take in the sleeves. It blows me away that designers think a woman's arms are going to explode exponentially with her belly while she's prego.

I mean, really, who's arms get THAT big?

No one that I've ever seen...

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Photos courtesy of Janelle Miles

(Gap dress, LOFT double wrap belt, Nicole Miller Boots)

Reconstructing: Gap Maternity Dress

I not the sort of girl to discriminate against a dress

just because it has "maternity" in its label.

In fact, I own three Gap Maternity dresses which I neither bought nor wore while actually pregnant.

I loved the print of this fabric and since it was

only eight dollars, I couldn't really pass it up, could I?

I took in the skirt with pin pleats in a sunburst pattern down the front since I didn't want to loose the pockets on the sides, (of course); added the cream chiffon underlay just because I thought it looked pretty there, then dressed up and took myself to the only building in town that kinda resembles a castle.

Gotta say, I'm completely happy with the end result.

(GAP Dress, Anthropologie Roaming Frills Cardi, Coded Cutout Belt, Seed Pearl Headband, Shoes, years and years...and years old)