Maternity Clothing
Thursday, October 11th, 2007
Historically speaking, maternity clothes are quite a new thing. I attempted to search wiki this morning to find out exactly how new, but there isn’t an article on “maternity clothing”. They did invite me to write one at that point, but as much as I love history, fashion and even pregnancy, I am not quite ready to merge the three into a wiki article. Sorry. Therefore my mission to compare today’s Noppies maternity clothes with historical maternity clothing using wiki as a resource was thwarted. Man, I hate to be thwarted. Because I really wanted to use this cool picture.
Oops. I think I just used the picture. Do you see a picture? Just pretend it’s not there. Anyway, for most of recorded history, clothing was loose enough that maternity clothing was not even an issue, and it has only been since clothing became more form fitting (mostly in this century) that maternity clothes have been necessary. In fact, some societies (the Amish come to mind) do not use maternity clothing at all for that same reason.
