Definition of fashion accessibility standards

Year 2016

CHALLENGE

The diversity of needs and people has led us to create a system to evaluate the accessibility of garment and accessories.

What should inclusive clothing looks like? What parameters should we consideer? What are the minimum requirements that a garment must have to be accessible? And, very important, for whom?
Just as there are standars in architecture, developing the abc of fashions accessibility has taken us years of work.
It has been a consequence of all the previous studies carried out.

METHODOLOGY

We joined the previous classification made in the study 1. List of needs, we moved it to functions of dressing and finally to the corresponding process.

Generic needs

Easy to dress and undress
Fastening myself
Modern, beautiful
It fits me well
Comfortable
Don’t let me get rubbed or sore.
Elastic fabrics
And many more…

Functions of dressing

Usability
Autonomy
Closures
Attractive
Fitting different bodies
Friction and pressure
Sensivity + Thermal comfort
Movement restriction
Security

Design process

Pattern making
Tailoring
Materials
Closures and rims
Colors

RESULTS

WHAT ARE THE FUNCTIONALITIES?
Functionalities helps us to identify the field of action of a need.
We define the functions of clothing based on the classification of generic needs.
In this way we have been able to group and clñassify the needs, determining the bases of the fashion accessibility.
Validated by professionals from the care sector and users.

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