A mama wrote to me: “I just want to feel like me again, but I can’t wear anything cute because I need easy access.” This is the capsule I would hand that sentence: cream and black, a pair of heels in it on purpose, and every single top opening. A cream V-neck shirt dress, a white scoop-neck tee, a black blazer, a cream and taupe striped shirt, a cream A-line midi skirt, black wide-leg trousers, a cream linen shirt dress for home, taupe leggings, a striped scarf, black pointed heels and white sneakers.
That is ten pieces plus the scarf, and they make the ten outfits pictured below. The heels are there because I wanted them there with my second and thought I was not allowed. You are allowed. You will mostly wear the sneakers, and that is fine too.
1. The cream shirt dress with heels and the scarf
A cream V-neck shirt dress with a soft tie waist, the striped scarf, black pointed heels. The V pulls aside over a clip tank; the tie fits at six weeks and at six months. The christening dress, and the one for the lunch that matters.
2. The white tee with the cream midi skirt and sneakers
A white scoop-neck tee over a nude clip tank, the cream A-line midi skirt with an elastic waist, white sneakers, the scarf. The scoop pulls down over the tank. Head-to-toe cream is braver than I usually am below a baby; the scarf is where the mark hides.
3. The blazer over the tee and the midi skirt with heels
The black blazer over the white tee and the tank, the cream midi skirt, black heels, the scarf. The blazer opens because blazers do. This is the evening version of outfit two and the one I would wear to the wedding reception.
4. The blazer over the cream shirt dress
The black blazer over the cream shirt dress, the scarf, black heels. The dress opens at the V, the blazer opens over it, and the two together look like a decision made by someone who slept. The autumn christening.
5. The striped shirt with the cream midi skirt and sneakers
The cream and taupe striped shirt tucked loosely into the cream midi skirt, white sneakers, the scarf. Three buttons from the top. The Saturday outfit for the day you have somewhere to be.
From the capsules
The Year Round Capsule
Two hundred nursing-friendly outfits from fifty-six pieces, fifty for every season, laid out and then worn. $29 once, yours to keep.
Free · three pieces in, nine outfits out
Pick any three things from your wardrobe. Anah shows you nine ways to wear them.
Nine is the fastest way to see how a capsule thinks. Add one photo and you see the outfits on you.
Free. Every top it suggests opens for a feed.
6. The striped shirt with black trousers and heels
The striped shirt over a black tank, black wide-leg trousers with a soft waist, black heels. The dinner-out outfit. Black below the waist hides whatever the day did; the stripe near the face makes it look chosen.
7. The blazer, striped shirt and black trousers
The black blazer over the striped shirt and the tank, black trousers, black heels. The outfit the mamas I interviewed for the Back to Work capsule described as the one for the meeting that matters. Blazer closed for the room, open for the eleven o’clock pump.
Free · the whole lookbook
How I lay outfits out, for free.
The Postpartum Lookbook is a full set of outfits in the NennVersa style, every top opening at the front, so you can see how the guides think before you spend anything.
Free. Sent to your inbox so you have it on your phone.
8. The white tee with black trousers and sneakers
The white scoop tee over the black clip-down tank, black trousers, white sneakers. The most-worn outfit of the ten. Pull the scoop down, clip the tank, feed. Nobody can tell.
9. The blazer over the tee with black trousers and sneakers
The black blazer over the white tee and the tank, black trousers, white sneakers. The school-run outfit that goes straight on to a coffee that is secretly a meeting. The blazer is the only thing that changed from outfit eight.
The Nursing Mama Fashion Commandments
Twelve rules I wish someone had told me postpartum. Print them. Screenshot them. Live by them.
- Nursing bra always. Regular bras become instruments of pain the day letdown surprises you.
- Nursing pads on your body + a spare pair in your bag. Every single time you leave the house. No exceptions.
- Extra top in your bag — for YOU, not the baby. Because leaks, spit-up, and coffee-spills don’t care about your outfit plan.
- If it takes more than 5 minutes to figure out how to nurse or pump in it, it’s not the right outfit today. Feeding access is comfort. Comfort is not optional.
- Belt under the bust (empire) or below the belly with drape — never at the belly button. Your postpartum body deserves flattery, not compression.
- Comfortable waistband is non-negotiable. Elastic, wrap, or pull-on. Zippers are a Sunday-only luxury for now.
- Dark tones, prints, or textures — not thin light solids. Because letdown marks are real and you deserve clothes that don’t advertise them.
- Machine-washable everything. Dry-clean is not real-mama fashion. If it can’t survive a spit-up rinse, it’s not in rotation.
- Cross-body bag only. Hands stay free for the carrier, the toddler, the coffee, the door, the meltdown.
- Comfortable shoes always. You’re carrying a car seat and a diaper bag. This is not the season for a heel you can’t run in.
- Get dressed BEFORE the kids see you if you can. It changes the whole day — for them and for you.
- One accessory — earrings, a lip color, a scarf — counts as “put together.” That’s the whole game. You get to feel like yourself again.
10. The linen shirt dress over leggings, for home
A cream linen shirt dress worn open over a tank and taupe leggings, white sneakers. The home-and-nursery-run outfit. Every button opens; the leggings sit above a scar. This is the one for the day that does not leave the house, and it still counts.
Ten pieces, cream and black, heels and sneakers, and a shirt dress for the days that stay home. The thing I want you to take from the pictures is that nothing here is a nursing top. The cute dress opens because it is a V over a tank. The blazer opens because it is a blazer. Feeling like you again does not need special clothes. It needs the clothes you like, with a way in.
The full version across all four seasons is the Year Round Capsule: two hundred outfits from fifty-six pieces, laid out and then worn, with three pictures of you in them on the house. If cream near your face is not your colour, the Colour Season Quiz is two minutes and free. And if you want someone who knows your closet to pick the heels-or-sneakers each morning, that is Anah inside the Atelier.
You are allowed the heels. The focus is on you, mama.
You deserve to be looked after too
A stylist who already knows you, every morning.
The Atelier is Anah every morning, already knowing your season, your shape and your closet. The community, the magazine, the planner, and Dress me for the mornings when choosing is the hard part.
