Lovely Lady Lumps

Fashion tips and alternatives for knocked-up knockouts

Comments (0) By Lina Lecaro Wednesday, Oct 11 2006

Bull’s Eye

Sometimes you just have to give in. After doing the rubber-band-through-the-buttonhole trick on my jeans to extend the waistline, wearing dresses as tops and donning my old sports bras for extra support, I will concede: You do need a few real maternity items to survive the last three months, namely a good pair of jeans and some undies. Super-low-rise denim styles like Frankie B. (which ride under the belly) might getcha through the first two trimesters, but camel toe and/or pube peekage are still an inevitability. Better to actually buy jeans made for your bulge and body, the most affordable of which are available at Target. The stuff in maternity designer Liz Lange’s namesake boutiques may be pricey, but her Target line is reasonable and there are plenty of different cuts too, except for maybe the current skinny-jean trend, which will only make you look like a big ball on two sticks anyway. As for bras and panties, Motherhood (in most malls) has decent ones in black these days (it used to be all about boring white and beige), and if you have the dough, you can splurge on Agent Provocateur, which actually has a maternity line of bras ($108) and panties ($81) in its hot pink and famous leopard print, made to be worn during nursing too. Heck, with stuff this cute, you can go from mother-to-be to MILF straight outta the hospital. See www.target.com and www.motherhood.com for local store locations. To order their maternity line, go to www.agent?provocateur.com/maternity.php.?