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Dressing for feel: four tactile approaches to putting on clothes
Dressing can be ‘a guessing game’ for vision-impaired fashion lover Elin Williams.
Dressing can be ‘a guessing game’ for vision-impaired fashion lover Elin Williams.
How an outfit feels can be more important than how it looks, particularly when accessibility is an issue. Here is how four people balance style and comfort
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Lucianne Tonti
Mon 22 Aug 2022 13.30 EDTLast modified on Mon 22 Aug 2022 19.26 EDT
Getting dressed is one of the few tasks we spend our entire lives doing. Most of the time it has to be done every morning, usually again before bed and sometimes we do it multiple times in a day.
Sometimes it requires a second opinion. Sometimes, even when you think you’ve nailed an outfit, someone else will tell you your fly is undone, your tag is out or that you have spilled something on the front of your shirt. And sometimes, you end up uncomfortable all day.
Getting dressed can also be a collaborative project – like when we’re children, if we’ve fallen ill, or when something is particularly tricky to zip up alone. The nature of [...]