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 making maternity clothes
Author: hcox1975 
Date:   05-28-05 08:24

Does anyone have any tips on how to change regular jeans into maternity? I want to change some jeans into some low rise maternity. That is where the waist hits you under the belly. I think I would need to use really wide elestic for that. Do I need to cut off some of the front or what? Thanks!

Heather
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 Re: making maternity clothes
Author: Chris Lyon 
Date:   05-28-05 12:24

Dear, when we all wore maternity clothes, the idea was to hide the belly. Drawstring pants and long tops were more the style. Mentally, I can really sympathize with the idea of being proud of your big, round, baby-filled belly, but emotionally, I still have trouble with it. If I were you, I would go down to the RTW store and see how these jeans are made. I've been know to spend a lot of time lurking in the dressing room with a pencil and a pad of paper checking out construction ideas.
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 Re: making maternity clothes
Author: Dana in DFW 
Date:   05-28-05 13:05

I couldn't get into the show-the-belly or below-the-belly stuff 2 years ago, so kept trying to cover/hide it myself. But, you could maybe trace the pants from just below the crotch up to the top to get the dimensions correct.

Dana
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 Re: making maternity clothes
Author: hcox1975 
Date:   05-28-05 14:18

I should have made myself more clear. I DO NOT want to show my belly. I just like the way they feel. They are much more comfortable to wear. My maternity tops cover up my belly.
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 Re: making maternity clothes
Author: Chris Lyon 
Date:   05-28-05 15:53

I know what you are saying. I always wore the very low cut french bikini panties when I was pregnant. They were so much more comfortable than the over the belly kind.
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 Re: making maternity clothes
Author: mizlilly 
Date:   05-28-05 19:12

Not trying to be fresh here... but wouldn't these low pants have a tendency to fall down?
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 Re: making maternity clothes
Author: hcox1975 
Date:   05-28-05 20:37

No they don't fall down because they are held up with very wide elastic. I would put a pic on here if I know how! LOL! They are a pair of jeans that has a short panel all the way around the waist that is made up of stretchy knit and it encases very wide elastic. They don't cut into like full panel jeans.
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 Re: making maternity clothes
Author: homekeepinggran 
Date:   05-29-05 15:40

Well, I made the over-the-belly pants but they never stayed there. Instead they always crept downward and hung as though I had devised low rise anyway. I always wished I could pin them to my belly button somehow! LOL. My maternity tops were quite long, thankfully. I think that's why the second time around I made sure to have more dresses and jumpers. It was less miserable than constantly trying to find a private place to hitch up my pants!

Blessings,
Carla
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 Re: making maternity clothes
Author: Claire UK 
Date:   05-29-05 18:13

Could you just sew a deep V shape piece of elastic and attach it to either side of the open zip front. Then you can use your jeans again afterwards?
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 Re: making maternity clothes
Author: shirley-Calgary 
Date:   05-29-05 22:32

You can use what we used to call stays - button on the bra and those rubber things that girdles used to come with to hold stockings - almost like those suspenders men wear but the garter things work very well and you dont have that uncomfortable rolling.

Shirley - Calgary
mom to Baxie (bichon) Bella, Dickens (Maltese) & Chi-Chi and Cowboy Apr 15/2010 at Rainbow Bridge Pistol - Cowboys littermate went today August 31/2010

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 Re: making maternity clothes
Author: shirley-Calgary 
Date:   05-29-05 22:33

Forgot what they were called - like garterbelt attachments.

Shirley - Calgary
mom to Baxie (bichon) Bella, Dickens (Maltese) & Chi-Chi and Cowboy Apr 15/2010 at Rainbow Bridge Pistol - Cowboys littermate went today August 31/2010

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 Re: making maternity clothes
Author: HundredAcreWood 
Date:   06-01-05 21:05

Maybe you could compare a pair of regular jeans to a some maternity jeans with the regular stretchy panel. I think the elastic on the low rise maternity jeans starts where the panel would attach to the denim on a pair of regular maternity pants. I had a pair of the low rise maternity jeans last year when I was expecting my youngest. I seem to recall that's about where the elastic started and they had a really wide elastic in the waist. I've never seen elastic that wide in the store. I wonder where you can get it?

I HATED those jeans! They didn't fit until I was big as a house and then I always felt like my pants were falling down. But I was 34 and expecting my seventh, so I'd pretty much given up fashion for comfort.

And before I forget, Congratulations!

Katrinka
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