How To Wear Maternity Shorts

If you are expecting a baby or planning to get pregnant, you shouldn't miss out on fashion and style. Learn how to look good on shorts even during pregnancy! Enlarge

How To Wear Maternity Shorts

If you are expecting a baby or planning to get pregnant, you shouldn't miss out on fashion and style. Learn how to look good on shorts even during pregnancy!

When you're choosing maternity shorts, there's a couple of key tips to look for. First of all, bear in mind that you're going to be wearing this for a very limited time. So, the key is to find something that is good enough quality that will get you through and feel nice but still something that you can wear often and repeatedly.

So if you're choosing something in kind of a non-color, by that, I mean something in this kind of stone color, you might go for something in taupe, you might go for something in charcoal, you might go for something in navy, something that can go with lots of different things and can be styled up or styled down, depending on what your occasion is. So, looking, first of all, at the fabric, this is a linen fabric, this will actually flow very nicely over the curves, and bearing in mind, it's got a very wide stretchy band as opposed to a waist band with a popper or a zip which can tend to become very uncomfortable towards the later months of pregnancy. So, we're looking for something with a wide band and a soft kind of fabric which has a little bit of give to it.

So, when you've chosen a neutral color scheme like this, you can get away with wearing these shorts quite often, depending how you style them up. So you can style them down if you're going for a very, very casual look, by wearing these with Birkenstocks, Crocs, plain shoes, something that is very comfortable, flip flops, something you can slip on wearing them either with a patterned top or stripy top, something loose fitting, you can choose a bold color with this. Or if you wanted to make this a little bit more of a formal look, you can put something slightly more structured on the top, you can wear a loose fitting, more tailored jacket with that, you can put a very slight wedge heel, if you can take a heel or a pretty sandal with that, something a bit less sports feely.

And a little bit more pretty, a little bit more occasion. The other key thing is, when you are wearing clothes for such a short time, you may not have many varying clothes, so the key thing, just like with this piece, is to accessorize it in different ways. So, if you're going for the more slightly formal look, you might choose to put a pashmina on with that, you might choose to put on necklaces, you might load up some bangles with that.

Equally, if you're going for more casual look, you might swap over wearing a looser tee to wearing a tank top underneath with a zip-up hoodie over top, something along those lines. But the key thing is to look for versatility in the color and the style of this. It's a flattering length on this short because you've clearly would have gained some weight at this stage, so a good flattering length that suits all ages and all bodies would be just above the knee and bearing in mind the waist band on this.

This is something equally versatile for wearing after you've had the baby while you're in the process of snapping back into your pre-baby size. So, this is a couple of tips on choosing and wearing maternity shorts. .