Adaptive fashion : how people with disabilities experience clothing / Susan Rothman Kolko ; collection editor Joseph H. Hancock II.

  • Kolko, Susan Rothman
Date:
2025
  • Books

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Description

How can clothing better serve people with disabilities? Drawing from research and personal interviews from industry representatives and consumers, author Susan Rothman Kolko examines the roles the fashion industry plays in supporting and encouraging inclusive products. The apparel industry has challenges but is moving towards realistic adaptive solutions in clothing. From equal rights to understanding identity in the social world, this book provides insight and inspiration for designers and a working vocabulary for diversity in clothing. Adaptive Fashion is ideal reading for students studying fashion, disability, diversity, history, business, marketing, sociology, and technology.

Publication/Creation

Miller Place, NY: Lived Places Publishing, 2025.

Physical description

xii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The disability movement and adaptive clothing -- Defining the adaptive market -- Understanding disabling conditions -- Disabilities and clothing adaptation -- Self-image and disability -- Inspiring confidence, communication, and connection : apparel for enhancing self-esteem -- "Fashioning" the social model of disability -- Business development, marketing, outreach, and access -- Supplementary information : notable figures and educational resources.

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    History of Medicine
    NH.U
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9781916704732
  • 1916704735