This is where I vent.
I love my job and I want you to love coming in to
the store! We always have a positive attitude at Haute Mama. So I don't want anyone to get negative vibes from
this page, but there are a few things you need to know about buying cheap clothes.
I spend a lot of time picking out every single piece of clothing you see in Haute Mama because I want you to have the most
stylish, well-made, figure-flattering pieces available. I'd be embarrassed to
sell anything else.
Thinking about visiting a discount department store? If
you don't shop for clothing there when your NOT pregnant, why would you start shopping there when you ARE pregnant?
Because you're only pregant for a few months? Bull-oney. You'll wear your maternity clothes
every day for about a year, and who wants to spend even one month looking frumpy in dime-store clothes or worse; ill-fitting,
too-tight pre-pregnancy clothes that mash the baby? Go in and pick up some shampoo and a DVD and a new set of bicycle
tires and stay out of the clothing department! You are not a 6 year old who neeeeeeeds a Hannah Montana outfit!
You are a grown woman who neeeeeds to look good!
1. Shirts with elastic in the back.
if the elastic hits you at your bra line, the rest of the fabric will fall straight away from the small of your back and add
about 15 lbs. to your figure, mostly in the back. So you look like you have terrible posture and
bad taste in clothing.
2. A tie in the back is only good if it's there for decoration. If it's required to make the garment
fit, then toss the garment. There should not be any excess fabric in the back, only in the front.
And if the tie is too high, you get the same 15 lb. effect outined above. If I see one more pretty girl in a cheap cotton
shirt with a stringy little cheap tie that accents her bra line, I'm getting out my scissors. There is a
HUGE difference in a tie and a sash. A sash is long, the designer didn't scrimp on the fabric, it's beautiful
and feminine and it's there for form, not function. A sash should have ends 4-5 times longer than the loops of
the bow and it should be wide and pretty. Ever seen a roast beef tied up with string? Allrighty then.
3. Jeans.
When you walk toward someone, they are looking at your face. When you walk away, if they have good manners, they're
looking anywhere but at your behind. But if you are begging them to look at your behind by wearing pants that
fit fine when you are sitting down, but look like you still sitting down when you are standing up, we can change all that.
4. If you were NOT pregnant, would you be wearing those overalls? Then please, for the love of everything
holy, take them off. Or just prepare to hear the words "Yee-haw!" a lot.
~ Love,
Lisa
