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Style with a difference
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(spoken to mods, putting it here just so as many as possible see if and then it'll be move to Style & Appearance in a few days)
I've been thinking about this for a while and I've finally decided to go a head and do it, even if it takes me a long time to finish!
With almost every style book I pick up, I have 2 problems with them:
1) They don't allow for anyone's personal style and how to cultivate it
2) They don't allow for style to fit into peoples lives, and work with illnesses and disabilities.
I've had dyspraxia all my life, it took me until I was 15 to be able to tie my shoe laces properly, and I spent up until my late teens in comfy clothes that I could get in and out of without getting myself tangled up. Over the years I've learnt ways of getting around it, but when my mental health got a lot worse I just stopped trying, because it felt like too much work.
I want, with help from people with a wide-range of illnesses and disabilities to work with me in creating a style guide for people of difference which really addresses self-expression through what we wear, and working with body shapes, and abilities not against them.
I'm looking for a group of essentially guinea pigs to try out some of my ideas, give me feedback, talk to me about what they find most challenging, and what they would like to be able to achieve in terms of style.
If you consider yourself disabled (physical/hidden/mental health issues/long term illness/sensory/learning difficulties) regardless of your abilities, if you feel you could help with the project, please contact me, either via PM or reply to this post. Any suggestions and feedback from anyone would be great too!
Thank you all!
I've been thinking about this for a while and I've finally decided to go a head and do it, even if it takes me a long time to finish!
With almost every style book I pick up, I have 2 problems with them:
1) They don't allow for anyone's personal style and how to cultivate it
2) They don't allow for style to fit into peoples lives, and work with illnesses and disabilities.
I've had dyspraxia all my life, it took me until I was 15 to be able to tie my shoe laces properly, and I spent up until my late teens in comfy clothes that I could get in and out of without getting myself tangled up. Over the years I've learnt ways of getting around it, but when my mental health got a lot worse I just stopped trying, because it felt like too much work.
I want, with help from people with a wide-range of illnesses and disabilities to work with me in creating a style guide for people of difference which really addresses self-expression through what we wear, and working with body shapes, and abilities not against them.
I'm looking for a group of essentially guinea pigs to try out some of my ideas, give me feedback, talk to me about what they find most challenging, and what they would like to be able to achieve in terms of style.
If you consider yourself disabled (physical/hidden/mental health issues/long term illness/sensory/learning difficulties) regardless of your abilities, if you feel you could help with the project, please contact me, either via PM or reply to this post. Any suggestions and feedback from anyone would be great too!
Thank you all!
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And short fat people?
But, yeah, I'd give it a shot if I can help. Interesting ways to wear long sleeves without looking frumpy would just make my life so much easier. By long, I mean bracelet length, none of this 3/4 crap.
The high street's idea of 'plus-size' is to make the same clothes bigger. The theory's fine but of course, most people who are size 18 are a different shape to size 10 and that's not considered.