Ingrid & Isabel Women's Maternity Everyday Bellaband
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Description of Ingrid & Isabel Women's Maternity Everyday Bellaband
Wear your non-pregnant pants a little longer and your maternity fashions a little sooner! The BellaBand is a seamless knit band you wear at your waistline, over your unbuttoned pre-maternity pants or over slightly big maternity pants and skirts. No one has to know your pants are undone or loose -- the BellaBand smoothes everything out. The BellaBand is made of soft, sumptuous European yarn that is hard to find and expensive to buy. It gives the final product, a knitted BellaBand, significant loft, thickness, and a sueded feel to the hand which is soft to the skin and gently grips the clothing it covers to hold itself in place. The yarn is knitted with nylon and with the highest gram of blended yarn per square inch which gives the product a heavy weight, incredible stretch and recovery, comfort, support and an opaque surface.Apparel reviews of Ingrid & Isabel Women's Maternity Everyday Bellaband
Customer Review: Can be used as a tube top too!
Rating: 5 Stars
I love this product, not only did it help keep my maternity pants up and allow me to wear my non-maternity pants unbuttoned, but also works as a stylish tube top! This was a great buy!Customer Review: Money saver!
Rating: 5 Stars
My wife used this for most of her pregnancy. It allowed her to be able to wear all her work clothes longer and save us money on maternity clothes.Customer Review: BellaBand
Rating: 4 Stars
I ordered the basic BellaBand in white, black, platinum, and chocolate. I feel like the white and black seem to have a stronger material (it feels like it holds better/tighter) than the platinum and chocolate colored ones. The chocolate colored one seems to be the "weakest", but I still wear it and it works. It is one of my favorite colors to wear because I wear browns a lot. I tend to wear the chocolate and black the most (mainly to match whatever shoes I am wearing). You can see through the white one a bit (like it is bluish where my jeans are and whiter where my jeans are not)...the others don't seem to show color through them (even the platinum one).
I ordered them back when I was about 20 weeks along and they are still working great for me at 34 weeks, and I have no reason to believe they won't continue to work for me for the next 6 weeks. They have allowed me to keep wearing my pre-pregnancy pants and also my pre-pregnancy shirts since they give extra length under my shirts. Obviously, you need to stay basically the same size everywhere except your belly for these to allow you to wear your pre-pregnancy things...so I can see how some people might not be able to use these as much as others.
I did wash them all together with cold water and on delicate (I don't think I put them in the dryer) and the white color did get a little "drabbed out" - but obviously that's what I get for washing white with black and brown :o)
Yes, there are times when I am moving positions a lot (sitting to standing, etc.) that my pants will bunch up funny or the band will come up above the back of my pants (thus the 4 versus 5 stars...but it is not necessarily a product flaw...just something that can't be avoided with such a big gut!). For me, these times of adjustment are well worth not having to deal with maternity pants. These allow me to be able to continue to wear pants that fit me nicely everywhere except the belly, and I definitely think it is worth it.
Customer Review: Tight
Rating: 4 Stars
Overall, this is a nice product. However, it is highly elastic and I found it to feel too tight for my comfort - even before I started to grow a belly! It gives a very snug fit, despite the fact that I am at the low end within the recommended size range for the size that I bought.
For comparison, I also purchased a "Baby Be Mine Bamboo Maternity Belly Band Organic" and ultimately decided that I like the 'baby be mine' better than the 'Ingrid & Isabel' because it was softer and not as tight, while still very effective at holding up unbuttoned jeans. I bought both in the same size.
Despite my preference towards the other product, I am giving this a 4 star because it is nice quality and would be appropriate for women who want a snug fit and don't mind tightness around their belly. I would recommend going up a size if you are near the cusp.
Customer Review: Works for Plus Sized Moms
Rating: 4 Stars
I was a plus-sized mom-to-be so I was concerned about how this would work for me. I was really pleased with this purchase. I was able to continue wearing my jean capris the rest of the summer, comfortably, which was such a relief. I even fit into clothes a size or two down (a major plus for women whose size fluctuates producing wardrobes of varying sizes). I didn't see any plus-sized women review this item so I wanted to be sure I did for those plus sized moms-to-be who come after me. Over a couple hours or lots of movement you may have to readjust -- sometimes your pants (not the band) start creeping down a bit. But I have never had the band "fail" me or show my unbuttoned pants (yikes!). It's easy to wear, easy to adjust and most important: it's comfortable!! Plus-size moms take heart -- this item WILL work for you too! I bought the black one, FYI.