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| Brand: BellaBand
Category: Apparel
Department: Womens
Buy New: $26.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  125 reviews
Sales Rank: 24
Fabric Type: 84% Nylon, 16% Spandex
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7 x 5.5 x 0.5
ASIN: B000ETNUMC
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| Features:
| • | Avoid maternity pants as long as possible. | | • | Wear your non-pregnant girl pants a little longer and those cute maternity fashions a little sooner. | | • | Colors to match any wardrobe. |
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Product Description
The Bella Band is a seamless knit band you wear at your waistline, over your unbuttoned pre-pregnancy pants, over slightly big maternity pants, or around the waistband of any maternity style that falls down around your hips.The Bella Band holds your pants up, disguising bulky unfastened closures or excessive fabric creating a smooth belly surface. Now, no one has to know your pants are undone or loose.Wear the Bella Band concealed, or let it peek out from under your top for that hip, layered look. If your top rises, it looks like a t-shirt or camisole -- not a funky mechanism to expand your waistband or hold up your pants.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 120 more reviews...
 Size November 10, 2008
Works great but it's a little on the tight side for the second tri-mester and I am petite so if you are not petite it may be very tight. Go for the next size up if you are in your second tri-mester or beyond.
A great idea that just doesn't quite work... November 1, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Every woman who's ever been pregnant has been faced with the dilemma of maternity clothes: To buy, or not to buy? In these financially challenging times, the temptation not to buy is very strong. And I wish I could report that the BellaBand is a solution to your first- and second-trimester wardrobe woes, but I can't.
I bought one as soon as I found out I was pregnant, and pretty soon I was putting it to use. But not for long. After a couple weeks of struggling, I put it in the closet and didn't use it again. When I got pregnant, I was no waif -- about a size 14 -- and maybe it works better for skinnier women. On me, it just didn't cut it. It rolled down; it rolled up; it never felt secure. I always felt as if I were one false move away from my pants falling down. It was a real disappointment.
If you're reading this review with a baby on the way, you're probably wondering what I did do. Well, since properly-fitting maternity pants for non-skinny women are nearly impossible to come by, I learned how to make do. Since the BellaBand couldn't salvage my pre-pregnancy jeans, I sprang for Gap jeans with an elastic top. I wore almost nothing else through most of my pregnancy. I'd never worn plus-sized clothes, but I discovered that 1X-2X plus-size clothes with elastic waists were nearly as good as correctly sized pregnancy clothes, and often much, much cheaper.
Sorry, zaftig ladies. I wish I had better news for you. Perhaps others have had better luck, but I can't recommend the BellaBand.
 indispensible October 20, 2008
This nifty band holds your breeches up and let's you get away with a minimum of maternity clothes purchases. It just looks like you've layered a tank top under your shirt, very cute.
It does what it says it'll do! October 19, 2008
At six months preggo, this band is holding up my regular pants and skirts (unbuttoned) like a champ! It's saved me bundles of $$$ and lots of style since I've yet to don any maternity wear from the waist down. Hurrah!
The company that makes them is completely wonderful. October 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this with dual hopes, that it would keep my pants up when I couldn't button them anymore, and that it would stay down in the back so that my pants wouldn't go too low when I bend over. It doesn't seem to do either, because it's made of kind of slippery material, and it seems to just ride up, so that it's not even touching my pants anymore (and so doesn't provide the protection in the back that I was hoping for). I bought the correct size based on the chart and advice, but perhaps if I tried a larger one, it would work better.
Since writing that review, I have received a personal email from the company about my troubles, and she gave me lots of advice on how to wear it properly. She advised me to wear the narrow hem down over my jeans, and for wider hips, to pull it down over the widest part of my hips, and that, if it is rolling up, I might just need a bigger size. All of that to say that the fact that they took the time to address my problem has made me a permanent fan of the company.
I'd change the star rating, as well, to a five if I could, since I might be wearing it wrong, and a bigger size would probably work better.
I do have to say that it's the only product out there that has addressed this particular problem for pregnant moms (and for people with "plumber" issues).
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