Vintage maternity clothes

Once people accepted that pregnant women could be stylish and need not remain hidden, the designs of vintage '50s maternity fashion were surprisingly varied. Here's a look!

From billowing dresses and maternity corsets intended to conceal a woman's baby bump to the formfitting trend seen on expectant mothers today, see how pregnancy fashion has changed over the years.

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From billowing dresses and maternity corsets intended to conceal a woman's baby bump to the formfitting trend seen on expectant mothers today, see how pregnancy fashion has changed over the years.

Now for the era that defines “vintage maternity style” in the minds of many: the 1950s! Unlike during the 1930s and 1940s, fabric conservation and rationing was no longer a big design consideration and, like the other styles of the 1950s, maternity wear became more voluminous and feminine. This post will ride the line of the late 1940s to early 1950s a bit because the maternity fashions were *very* similar. (I think we sometimes forget that fashion doesn't abruptly change just because a new…

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