Shameless promotion

Given Ellie's recent gripe about people promoting items like Pampered Chef and Mary Kay, I wavered regarding whether I should write this entry, but decided to write it anyways. I love this product, and it is unique, so I'll promote it. I don't stand to gain from it, but I have found it really helpful so I'll write about it.

Note that as I write about this I'm sipping dark coffee.

I found out about Shade Clothing, a Mormon business, about six months ago while searching for modest clothing. A week ago I took the plunge and bought some maternity shirts. Being 6' tall, I war with my shirts to cover my belly even when not pregnant, so it's even worse when pregnant. The first few months of pregnancy are awful because maternity shirts fit like tents and maternity pants fall down, but I have to play tricks with my normal pants to keep them up. The "tricks" also require that the top few inches of the pants be covered, which is not an easy task!

I bought two undershirts (which is what they are - unless you want to advertise your figure to every Tom, Dick, and Harry who walks down the street) and really like them. Right now, I'm wearing normal pants (held together with rubber bands), a brown "undershirt" which goes down to the bottom of my jeans pockets, and a lightweight beige sweater which, currently, goes about 2" below my belly button. Without these undershirts, I'd be relegated to maternity shirts, which get boring fast enough without adding an extra couple months of wear at the beginning.

I'll probably buy some more undershirts (maternity and normal). I may get the maternity three-pack and then get 3-5 normal undershirts which I'll cut nursing slits in. The maternity undershirt is a really trim fit, made to stretch as your belly grows, so I don't currently feel like I'm wearing a tent.

What a great product! Even if I don't have special underwear to hide.