Maternity Dress: Maternity Dress: Dressing In Black & White

Saturday, February 7, 2009

Maternity Dress: Dressing In Black & White

Every season some colour is touted as being the hottest new thing, but somehow classic black & white always remains in fashion.

Dressing in black and white is the rules of black being slimming and white adding width still apply but how to wear to get yourself look more fabulous in black & white?

Everything looks smaller in black.
During pregnancy some lucky people seem to limit their size increase to growing a beautiful compact bump out the front, while the rest of them stays exactly the same. But for many of us, pregnancy is a time when we grow…and grow…and what used to be our waist has well and truly disappeared by the end of the second trimester, or even earlier. If this sounds like you, if your bump is sizeable and you’re feeling…ahem…very curvaceous…then a little fashion ‘black magic’ may be called for.
Pregnant actress Jessica Alben(seen here well into her pregnancy, and she is rumoured to be carrying twins!) used black to cover it all up at a recent appearance.
If you are going to choose for your maternity dress in black and white clothing is polka dots, make sure they are oversized. Small polka dots will date you. Any large graphic black-and-white print is popular, and you can kick it up a notch or tone it down a notch by what you pair with it. A lime green tank with a black and white floral skirt draws attention, while the same skirt with a black sweater calms the look down. Put the tank under the sweater and you are ready to go from work to a night on the town.
Black and white is generally a more pulled together look, but if you want to wear black and white maternity clothes, you are looking great in a pair of black-and-white checked shirt with your favorite material jeans.
Black shoes are versatile and probably something you already own, but black shoes with white details pack more punch and help pull the outfit together.
For your jewelry accessories, you can go all the way with black and white enamal bangles or cuffs. Otherwise choose to add a shot of color with multicolored strands of necklaces or add some shine with a mix of silver and gold.