Clothing-Related Issues of People with Disabilities

Abstract

One of the key antecedents that are so important to a consumer when buying ready-to-wear apparels is fit especially for persons with disability. Clothing fit can therefore be defined as the ability of garments to have the right size and shape and should include specific features. The Indian apparel sector, which does not have standard dimensions specific to persons with disabilities, tailors the garment to an ideal body profile. The other aspect of the clients suffering from physical disabilities lacks support from the society in order to enable them to feel like other people, make decisions and be on their own. Even though the impaired share the same level of intellect as anyone else, their confidence, esteem and social inclusion can be boosted by the articulate concept of apparel as everyone equal in society. An attempt at analyzing the problem of disability rehabilitation with a view to the socially oriented approach demonstrates the inefficiency of the offered concepts as to the problem of clothing for disabled people. They have, however, become more important today in serving the emerging need for adaptive clothing. However, personal needs for such individually tailored garments are increasing in accordance with the population of disabled people; nonetheless, there is no specialized market for such clothes or a clear path to address these limitations associated with wearing normal clothes.