Blue Badge Style Signs-Up The Hoxton Hotel for Pictorial Access Descriptions Inclusive Hotel Brings Disability Facilities to Life Online Press release London, 26 February 2013, Blue Badge Style, the first app and website guide to a stylish lifestyle for the less-physically-able, has signed-up the award-winning Hoxton Hotel for its first Pictorial Access Description (PAD). The…
We started the Blue Badge Style Sports Blog to help advise less able people on how to get into sports. Each week we feature a different Paralympic athlete writing about their own sport. This week Swimmer Ollie Hynd has written about his journey to the Paralympics. Ollie made his international debut in 2011 before winning…
Aminaka Wilmont’s show was highlighted by the appearance of the obligatory celebrity, Sienna Miller, in one of their outfits (see previous review of LFW). Their clothes can be bought at Selfridges & Net-A-Porter amongst other places and are expensive but some of what they showed may be copied for the High St. It’s therefore worth noting…
Mother’s Day is coming up soon. If you didn’t know what date it’s on yet, or if you had forgotten about it completely, it’s on the tenth of March this year. If you had forgotten about it then shame on you but you’ve been let off because we’re here to help you out. Mother’s Day…
I was invited to two shows for LFW Autumn/Winter 2013. Aminaka Wilmont and Krystof Strozyna (see the show here). My detailed reviews will follow but suffice to say the highlight for me and the Musical Lieutenant was the appearance of Sienna Miller at the Aminaka Wilmont show wearing one of their SS13 outfits. London Fashion Week…
Charlie Allen is a London based designer and bespoke tailor. As part of our London Fashion Week programme, we’ve asked him to give his best fashion advice for less able men and for his insight into how he makes clothes for them. Here’s what he told us: 1. It depends on the individual: “It’s horses for courses…
Accessing Style – by Deborah (www.accessingstyle.co.uk) Having professionally dressed countless agency models on set, then having become a wheelchair user myself, means I recognise, first hand, that although some clothes aren’t as comfortable or flattering, there are still many items within the high street that look fantastic when sitting. A key thing to remember when…
The history of St. Valentine is unclear but one version of the truth is that he married Christian couples who were being persecuted in Rome. Helping Christians at this time was a crime and the Roman Emperor Claudius condemned him to death. He was beaten with clubs and stones; when that failed to kill him,…
As part of our New Years push to get fit, we’ve asked personal trainer and BBS Lieutenant, Paul Huntingford, for his top fitness tips for the less able: Whatever your level of ability, staying fit can be tricky. However you don’t need to have access to lots of cash and Olympic level facilities to ‘get…