Here’s an article by a fashion house – Xeni – just for wheelchair users, (the high street is good if you look long and hard, on the net of course – see my choices for the younger fashionistas, for this week from Topshop at the end of this post): XENI’s first collection is a capsule…
Coolture™ is a US based company that have designed a ‘cooling solution with street appeal’ and as they also say, it ‘is long overdue’. The fashion world have overlooked the huge market for clothes with disability in mind. Here is a company bucking the trend, unfortunately prompted by one of their own becoming chronically sick with MS – Van…
My good friend Charlie Allen is a menswear designer but knows that sitting in a wheelchair requires a different type of styling and tailoring. Comfort is important as well as accommodating for the fact that you may have a different body shape to that of a standard ‘off the peg’ piece of clothing. Fabric and the…
This a site –Wheelie Chix-Chic – which understands how womenswear needs to be designed differently for sitting in a chair. They manage to make the clothes look fashionable too. Style plus disability,there’s a good idea!!
I didn’t realise you could get specially tailored trousers for sitting in a wheelchair. Similarly if one shoulder is slightly higher than the other a good suit can compensate for this and make you look and feel great. Go and visit Charlie Allen he knows how to make you look cool, on trend and comfortable.