The Leeds Corn Exchange Fashion Show

At Mummy & Little Me, we're passionate about our lovely Leeds home, the Corn Exchange. It's such a magnificent historical building & nowadays it's a haven for boutique shopping. We offer shoppers a laid back shopping environment as well as a place to sit, relax & recharge the batteries with some tasty food & drinks (whether it's a coffee or cocktail!).

So together with some of the other Corn Exchange retailers, we decided to spread the word about our unique shopping destination by putting on a fun event to showcase our current clothing collections. 

We wanted to do our bit for charity, too, so we decided to put on a fashion show in aid of Cancer Research UK, and "Catwalk for Life" was born.  It took a lot of planning & teamwork ....and persuasion getting my customers to model for me!  But we managed to gather a small team of lovely pregnant Mummy & Little Me customers - who ranged from 15 weeks to 39 weeks (!) pregnant at the time of the event - and got to work planning their outfits, make-up & catwalk choreography. We wanted a range of real women to model for us to illustrate that our maternity wear looks just as good worn during early to late pregnancy (& after!).  

I think you'll agree from the photos, they all looked stunning, and they received a HUGE applause from the audience!

The event took place on the evening of 19th April & over 300 people joined us at the Corn Exchange, raising thousands for Cancer Research UK. It was a hugely successful night & everybody had a great time. It was a real team effort & we all feel very proud of the success of the evening, and look forward to doing it again!

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Angela Knight

Manager

I recently had a rather strange day at work.  In quite a change to my normal role of Manager of a maternity and baby wear shop (www.mummyandlittleme.co.uk), I was asked to MODEL the maternity wear!

Points to note here would be that I am neither a model, nor pregnant.  So, it was rather an eye opening experience, as you can probably imagine.  

Having never been pregnant, I had, of course, never shopped for maternity wear before.  But this experience showed my that if/when my time comes, there is nothing to be nervous about.  It was actually a joy to try on the beautiful new Spring/Summer '12 collections.  There is something about feeling the fabrics against the skin, seeing how well the garments are cut - and importantly knowing that they fit me just as well before I popped in my "fake bump" as after!  So whether you are 12 weeks or full term, these clothes will fit you well and look fabulous.

It also makes me a better advisor to my clients in the boutique in Leeds Corn Exchange having tried on the clothes myself.

So now I've had a sneak peek of what I will look like pregnant...not something everyone can say!  Just hide the pictures from my husband-to-be; first things first...!

Angela Knight

Manager

Mummy & Little Me

Leeds Corn Exchange

LS1 6DT

Buying Maternity Wear is a nerve racking business

Buying maternity wear is always a nerve racking experience. You may wonder why, but for good quality, well cut maternity wear you need to choose and order it at least 8 months in advance. This may sound easy but their are two problems with this :-
Firstly - by the time it all arrives in boxes it's like a white knuckle ride and generally you cannot remember what you ordered! Trust us once you have had children your memory for some things is completely useless, yes you could refer to your notes and pictures but that would spoil the fun. So you generally just wait and open the box with trepidation.
Secondly what you liked 6 months ago or what colours and fashions you hoped were coming on the scene could be totally off the mark. You could have the whole thing very wrong..... So when One of our new maternity collections arrived last week we were again in this state of trepidation - normally there is always something different to the original sample, or some top or skirt you pick up and say ' I ordered this ?' However we can say that this year to our great relief we have a gorgeous new collection of very nice maternity clothes. From the brightest canary yellow dress I have ever seen too two of thr prettiest maternity skirts.

 

Our Lovely Yellow Dress in Leeds

I think this year we can pat ourselves on the back and say 'good job girls !. Although only time and sales will tell. Have a look at the website and let us know what you think.