Adaptive Fashion : How People with Disabilities Experience Clothing
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| Title: | Adaptive Fashion : How People with Disabilities Experience Clothing |
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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. |
| Authors: | Susan Rothman Kolko |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Fashion designers--United States--Case studies, Barrier-free design, People with disabilities--Clothing--United States, Fashion design--United States, Clothing trade--United States |
| Categories: | DESIGN / Fashion & Accessories, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Retailing, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Fashion & Textile Industry, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disability, SELF-HELP / Fashion & Style, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Diversity & Inclusion |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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. |
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| ISBN: | 9781916704732 9781916704749 9781916704756 |
