Together, we searched for a bra that was both easy to put on for herandbeautiful, Butler says.
We found only unattractive, medical-looking options.
It was such a dehumanizing experience.
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Ten years later, Butler turned toadaptive fashionfor the answer.
It was also imperative that the bras not only serve a function, but look good, too.
Intimates especially are so closely tied to self-confidence and self expression.
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When your only options are medical frumpy underwear, Ive seen how it drastically affects self-confidence, she adds.
Disabled women deserve to feel beautiful and sexy too.
What most people get wrong about adaptive fashion is what they get wrong about disabled culture.
Aaron Rose Philip for Collina Strada fall 2022
They look at us as a liability and not cultivators of imagination.
They design for us the same way, they say.
The secret is to plan for obstacles but live for inspiration.
Shayla Lawson
When we imagine the way adaptabilityuplifts,we fly.
Disabled bodies are innately couture entities.
Disability fashion asks us to bring all our skillsour compassion, our creativityto the cutting edge.
Victoria’s Secret’s adaptive underwear
Butler points to something most of us use daily: texting.
Text messaging was invented for the deaf community to communicate.
Now, over 22 billion text messages are sent everyday, she says.
Good adaptive design includes everyone and makes life easier for all of us.
When we empower and design for marginalized communities, it benefits everyone.
Philip hopes that we can reach a point where the term adaptive fashion becomes obsolete.
There should be access everywhere and in everything.
Shayla Lawson
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