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Subject: Maternity clothes in the UK
Category: Family and Home > Parenting
Asked by: lesley-ga
List Price: $25.00
Posted: 18 Jul 2002 00:34 PDT
Expires: 17 Aug 2002 00:34 PDT
Question ID: 42408
Names of maternity clothes suppliers in the UK who do plus sizes please?
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Subject: Re: Maternity clothes in the UK
Answered By: till-ga on 18 Jul 2002 02:00 PDT
 
HereŽs the list of maternity clothes suppliers in the UK:

BATH
5 Saracen Street, 
Bath,
Somerset, BA1 5BR
Telephone: 01225 442777
Open : Mon-Sat: 9.30am-5.30pm
Sun: 10.30am-4.30pm 

BLUEWATER
U071 Upper Thames Walk,
Bluewater, Greenhithe, 
Kent, D9 SAR
Telephone: 01322-427823
Fax : 01322-427833 
Open : Mon-Fri:10am - 9pm 
Sat: 9am - 8pm Sun: 11am - 5pm

CHESTER
Lower Row,
31a Bridge Street, 
Chester,
Cheshire CH1 1NG
Telephone: 01244 318444
Open : Mon-Sat: 9am-5.30pm
Sun: 11am-5pm

COBHAM
23 Oakdene Parade,
Cobham,
Surrey, KT11 2LR
Telephone: 01932 864343
Open: Mon-Sat: 9.30am-5.30pm 
Sun: 10.30am-4.30pm

LONDON, SW6 
725 Fulham Road,
London SW6 5UL
Telephone: 0207-371 0500
Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri: 10.00am - 6.00pm
Thurs: 10.00am - 7.00pm
Sat: 9.30am - 5.30pm
Sun: 11.00am - 5.00pm
Please check for bank holiday opening hours.

MARLOW (NEW!)
Morris Place
22 - 24 Spittal Street
Marlow
Buckinghamshire SL7 1DB
Telephone: 01628 891891
Open: Mon-Sat: 9.30am-5.30pm
Sun:11am-5pm 

ST ALBANS
12 Market Place, 
St Albans, 
Hertfordshire, AL3 5DG


Telephone: 01727 836777
Open: Mon-Sat: 9.30am-5.30pm 
Sun: 10.30am-4.30pm

WINCHESTER
75 St Georges Street,
Winchester,
Hampshire, SO23 8AH
Telephone: 01962 890330
Open: Mon-Sat: 9.30am-5.30pm
Sun: 10.30am-4.30pm

They sell maternity clothes up to size 18.
from:
Maternity Wear from Blooming Marvelous
( http://www.bloomingmarvellous.co.uk/pages/Shops/Shops.pasp )


Budget Bump Maternity sell oversizes in their online shop: (nice shop
by the way)
Budget Bump Maternity
( http://www.budget-bumps.com/acatalog/ )

Bumpsmaternity have an informative website and online shop as well. I
found e.g. lingerie in XXL.
( http://www.bumpsmaternity.com/ )

At Maternitywear Exchange youŽll find a list of size 20+ clothes.
Prices seam to be rather moderate.
( http://www.maternityexchange.co.uk/catalogue/bysize/20+/size20+.asp
)

Dororthy Perkins offer some matrenity clothes in size 20 as well:
( http://www.dorothyperkins.co.uk/promostores/dp/index_ns.html )

Of course youŽll be able to selcet from a larger offer if the
restriction to UK was removed.


Search Strategy:

I went to 
( http://www.yahoo.com ) and selected category 
Home > Regional > Countries > United Kingdom > Business and Economy >
Shopping and Services > Apparel > Women's > Maternity

and 
( http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Business_and_Economy/Shopping/Clothing/Womenswear/
)
and
( ://www.google.de/search?q=maternity+clothes+united+kingdom++plus+size&hl=de&lr=&ie=UTF-8&start=10&sa=N
)

till-ga
Comments  
Subject: Re: Maternity clothes in the UK
From: alex_p-ga on 18 Jul 2002 12:49 PDT
 
Hi Lesley,
There are a couple of good sites that the researcher missed out on.

Precious Cargo have a large range of maternity clothing in up to size
28. However, they advise that there is a 15% surcharge for theseitems,
and that as they are custom made they are purchased at your own risk.
http://www.preciouscargo.co.uk/frameset.htm

For supportive pregnancy bras and nursing bras after the birth, try
http://www.mothernaturebras.co.uk/maternitybra.html

One informative website I looked at (plus-size-pregnancy.org) pointed
out that it may not be necessary to have an entire wardrobe of
maternity clothes; plus-sized fashions tend to have elastic waists and
other features that may allow them to be worn for most of the
pregnancy (perhaps purchasing a larger size than normal). This is a
link with lots of information for plus size pregnancies. Be sure to
check out their "Resources for the UK"
http://www.plus-size-pregnancy.org/PlusMat%20Clothing%20FAQs/PlusMat-abroad.html

(If you decide to go the non-maternity route, a good list of
plus-sized clothing retailers in the uk is listed below.)
http://www.realcurvy.com/uk/ukclothes.htm

An American website with information on plus size pregnancy:
http://www.grandstyle.com/library.htm#pregnancy
Subject: Re: Maternity clothes in the UK
From: ybot-ga on 06 Aug 2002 07:57 PDT
 
I would avoid Mothercare as a pair of their maternity trousers quickly
wore out, and they refused to give a refund.
Subject: Re: Maternity clothes in the UK
From: christina99-ga on 11 Sep 2004 15:00 PDT
 
Have just seen this message and although it was typed a couple of
years ago(!) I thought I'd mention to anyone that's reading ....
another site to try out (I think they're new) is
www.tiffanyrosematernity.com - they're clothes are different to the
usual you find .... definitely worth a try if you want something a bit
more formal - say for a party or wedding.

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