Fashion Freaks
your dressing room on the net!

Fashion Freaks is about fashion, clothing and vanity
from a seated perspective.

We who use wheelchairs know how hard it is to find good looking and well fitted clothes. Skirts are too short at the back. Pants are too tight in the crotch. The jacket travels forward with every move until the shoulder pads form extra boobs. It is not funny!

And then there are the few selling adapted clothes. A couple of them actually have clothes that look okay - if the style fits you and you can afford them.

It is not as complicated as you think to sew yourself. And when you have your “own" pattern you can create any combination or variation you want. Fabric in different material, structure and colour totally change the look of a garment. Pockets, frills do the same. Skirts can be long or short, pants can become shorts and the jacket sleeves have wristbands.

With you “own" pattern you can ask a seamstress to sew that special garment for that special occasion - maybe a white two-piece suit for graduation. Or find the tailor who makes motorcycle clothes and order that leather jacket everyone will envy.

Read more about the thoughts behind the project here.

Tips
This is where you find Tips from other wheelchair users: materials, adaptions, gadgets etc.

Patterns
This is where you find basic patterns for skirts, pants and jackets. Together with the patterns you have instructions on how to cut the fabric and sew the clothes together.

The Mix
This is where you find columns, crazy ideas photos of clothes we made during the project etc.

"Fashion Freaks" was financed by The Swedish Inheritance Fund

Tell a friend about Fashion Freaks.
Download the leaflet about us, copy and spread it.
Want to write an article, we will provide the photos.

Here is the leaflet

And please give us a yell and tell us when you have. fashionfreaks@independentliving.org

The original Swedish version of Fashion Freaks is here.

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