REtroCYCLEd: Vintage Fashion for Breastfeeding

I have some really lovely vintage dresses in my closet, and a few more in my shop. But when I needed a dress for an event recently, nothing in my closet met my needs. Even though I'm back to my pre-pregnancy size, all of my vintage dresses are high-necked, which means bad for breastfeeding. So I looked online. I needed one with buttons or a wrap that was suitable for breastfeeding, but was flexible on just about everything else. I couldn't find anything anywhere! I looked all over Etsy and couldn't believe there wasn't one dress for me. Now, I'm a bit of an unusual(ly, shall we say, "gifted") size on top, so maybe I was expecting too much. But I was a bit disappointed - I figured I could find a fun wrap dress (and now I'm bumming that I gave away my stretchy blue disco wrap dress to my friend Ellyn a while back!) I also looked for handmade wrap dresses, but didn't find any in the under $40 category (which pretty much any dress needs to be right now, since it likely won't fit properly once I'm done breastfeeding.)

I ended up wearing a button down dress from Old Navy that I really like. It's not available any more but they seem to keep their wrap and button down dresses well stocked! I've included a couple of those below, along with a couple from Etsy that popped up. Even though I don't shop at ModCloth or JCrew, I checked them for this blog post, and didn't find anything newsworthy.