No Gym Shoes!

Apparently, if no maternity uniforms are available, comparable civilian attire can be worn.  Your military name tag and rank must still be displayed.    I did not like that option either because I did not want the expense of purchasing maternity work clothes --in this case, would have been along the lines of business or business casual attire.  Thankfully, the maternity BDU's never did come in but I was able to get the Class B's.

Determined not to wear maternity BDU's or combat boots, I set my mind on another maternity exclusion.


As you may know, pregnant women often times have problems with swollen feet and so even in a maternity uniform, a woman might not be able to wear the required combat boots or shoes --enter in the military profile.


A profile is basically an exception to do nor not do something.  Soldiers that suffer from a sprained ankle or similar injury might get a "gym shoe profile", which just means they are allowed to wear gym shoes with their uniform.  That was common with pregnant women too.  And honestly, it did not look so bad with BDU's but a skirt?  Yeah --no!


Thinking I was ever so cute in my maternity skirt and/or dress slacks (Class B's), there was certainly no way I was going to wear a skirt with nylons and gym shoes.  I mean, CERTAINLY NO WAY.  Eventually I out grew my maternity slacks and so all I was left with was the skirt option.  Maternity uniforms were still on back-order and I was lucky enough to get the ones I had but after out growing them, I wasn't able to get any additional ones.  I wasn't about to revert back to the civilian clothes option because you see, since I was already in a maternity uniform I did not want to have to explain --well you see, I outgrew those and now they don't have any to fit me.


Because to me that sounded a lot like -- I am so fat and huge that even an Army tent isn't big enough to go around this butt and stomach.  I tried to get bigger uniforms and apparently, all the military fabric in the country is needed to make things like airplane tarps and 15-man tents, which is apparently the amount of material needed to make ME a uniform.  In addition to the probability of giving birth to sextuplets or a 50 pound baby, I have turned into the Very Hungry Caterpillar or Hungry Hungry Hippo and thus my eating habits have caused me to grow to the size of an Army tank.  Clothing Sales only sells uniforms to fit normal sized pregnant woman.  I am beyond that stage and thus, I am now having to revert to civilian clothes.


Yeah see, I was trying to avoid that explanation for the sudden wear of civilian maternity clothes so I decided I'd do without the pants and stick with the skirt for the duration of my pregnancy. 


Skirt and cute low-heeled black shiny shoes, that is.  NO GYM SHOES!