Rethinking the Uniform

There's a column in Cookie magazine (published by Conde Nast, the people behind Vogue, but it's for parents) called The Uniform. It gives you ideas for a look to wear to pick up the kids, go to work, etc. It made me think about my mommy uniform, and how it's changed. When Lola was an infant and I was nursing (constantly, it seemed), jersey dresses from names like Ella Moss and Rachel Pally were first hitting the stores. My wardrobe consisted of variations on the same theme - a swingy jersey dress with an either strappy top or a wrap top, so that it was nursing accessible. I came to own so many of these dresses and wore the same look so often that it started to grow old. Then winter rolled around (or what passes for it in Daytona Beach) and I started wearing long-sleeved wrap front tops with jeans or warm-up suits over nursing camisoles. Again, that quickly grew old, and unlike the jersey-dress look, it made me feel like a frump. After I stopped nursing, I was briefly reunited with my old wardrobe before quickly getting pregnant again. Now that I'm no longer pregnant, I am back to wearing clothes I can nurse in, and I'm looking for a new uniform. I spent the winter, truth be told, in warm-up suits again, and I am so over them. I want a new uniform, and a good one this time. So this is what I'm thinking:


Slightly wide-legged pants and flowy tops from Anthropologie
Those cute new cargo-style shorts dressed up with button-front tops and colorful wedges
Shirtdresses
Babydoll or empire style dresses that are in some way nursing-accessible (is that a term, or did I just make it up?)
Rompers. Never thought that I would be using that word to refer to clothes for myself and not my two year old, but there you go. Anyway, I've bought a couple of these short jumpsuits, and they look really cute on a petite frame (read: a short person, like moi).


These are a couple of my latest finds:

Love this top from Anthropologie - it's cute and super-wearable: LINK

The romper I just bought from ShopBop: LINK