Today's Homemaker - Clothes for the Handicapped, Part 1

suggest the first of our series of four programs on clothing for the handicapped or probation is our extension clothing and textile specialist here at Iowa State University and she's going to give you some construction tips on just exactly how to make these clothes very easy for you to where you thought today that we talked about sport clothes or maybe we can call them work clothes too I think they're both young adults tripathi's many people like parent like material like you showed us like we're still some more off today because they can be made easy to get into and also I think we have to understand first of all that we need closer to real pretty young people because if they like and there are becoming to them and I think we can also filter in clothes for the hand path we like fabric disqus respect like you showed us that things with your body builds of your body leaving but we also like colors that are suitable for people psychologically it's very important that these people have clothes that are becoming sedans and that's life like the other people wear that they're not discriminated if they feel a part of anything and it closed won't separate things in the booth so we use a lot of psychology and close to the handicappers we do for the rest of us now let's see if it's the first pair of trousers that we have that I think are quite attractive on Pat Cory also do you want to tell us about the features on this well padded wearing some paint like shorts that really have some very fine features I think you'll have to demonstrate your fantasy and show us what they are but first of all the fabric is very desirable is strong and they bend and skins and working in farming fell last a long time now she's pulling apart there's a waste what we call us pressure tape quick tip is made of nylon coils and leap and they interlock that's the reason you probably heard a little bit of noise it does make a noise this is very strong pressure tape and it's easier to get into your garments really all you do is stick around it of course you have to stick sometimes on a single piece of fabric and WLAN backswing and surround the Belfair but that one caution only in using this and this is that you don't put too hot an iron on it nylon will melt with a high temperature of your iron but this is the only pre talking now you'll notice that path of trousers are held up there with a waistband that's also fathomless velcro it is this song even with body movement it wouldn't fall apart it's also pretty flat so if there's not any bolts around ablation I don't think so many of us like both around the waist and so this is an added feature there it should be available and just about all the stores where you buy and I all these bought it here man same time you can use with any different kinds of way now this garment to would be very helpful for those that are handicapped the cosmic instance opens down on the side as you saw her there and all you do is pull this apart it will hear the knowledge this sounds like ripping doesn't it but that doesn't matter it's over in a minute and then all you do is just put it back together again the only cautions you have there on the outside the legs I think is that they're a little bit slope to go over the hips but you can see that there's no difficulty for pets get that back together although these garments were not made specially for past he does fit into them very well so if you can imagine abdominal made especially for you it would just be a pretty handsome outfit you wear these classes again are useful for women who Duke and band and who doesn't actually do anything at all so we would consider this a very fine way to get a garment together for a handicapped person now this is another pair just like the ones that Pat had on that i was showing in this instance and these are very nice and neat and these are them that are available to you through a catalog if you wish to purchase them or they're very easy to make yourself i'd like to call your attention to the bar and the hook here and you'll notice these are quite large so that fingers are not so nimble and handling they're also very strong they are flat too and no one wants walk around the way well this meets all those criteria for a good closure here this happens to be made adjustable here there's two bar and fairly fastened to and be precise about and Roger at least half an average and when we get into a longer pants sometimes this presents problems for people who are sitting in a wheelchair and I think the joist guy has an excellent idea for something of this nature so that it's not tight around her knee yes this is an elastic gathered on for there you'll see her use this plant like garments and she moves her knee this elastic allows for sharing of these guns which gives extra fullness over the knees and of course takes it up as she move now all of the women's like pant like garments I think most of us knew for certain occasions and this would give a handicapped person a lot of comfort and she uses her body there this could be made at home of course to and oftentimes when we put appearing in by elastic threads or the use of elastic in some way and this is what has been done on this particular garment but your wife is wearing now if we can see the action pleats that are in the blouse is Joyce get something turns around for us these action peeps are just make a garment wearable for a lot of people for keeps if the shoulders are little rounded Arthur falling shoulders and this gives our three or four more inches of e across the back of TV cos you'll also notice that they've been fixed on the edge if you can see is very funny pressing there this goes back into shape and I think the women like this better because the garment looks neat and fitted this way you're also note inspect the cars on these garments are very flat there is nothing bulky I'd come out and cause the distortion there as they lean over this hugs the body and they were made this way on purpose so they would be that now another idea that we may be control since we show the shearing around the knee and this is a very neat trick if you're again was created by the United States Department of Agriculture next pulls apart here with Justin it really isn't an inset at all it's an extension of the fabric cut on to the side here it goes back and shape because it has been fit so well here on this making real crease here but we do get an interesting more as easy to cross the needs of this garment as this extension spreads when the knee is the vent this is a very neat way I think the women like for their clothes to look neat and fitting even though they may need more stretch or give or even a garment and certain motions that they make I think we also decided that this was a bit of a stretch fabric to which we give you a little more Muslim it is a bit of a stretch and there's another feature here that I want to show you about that they have put more stretch in the waist line which is very important to as we see from then this is elastic on the inside but in order to distract this fabric is woven fabric with elastic they put this wasteland on a buyer and you know that all fabrics will give on the bias so this is the way we get perspective and this is a very clever way of getting land on here and having it go back to shape I think they can remember that putting a some type of a closing on the inseam is very desirable and this is one way of course to get the trouser is a very slim line of the trousers over a brace and make it very easy to put on it's back again and she can show you this technique this is a zipper growing up the inside of the garment here Rises at the belt correlation but you can show your zipper in a minute uh-huh and then again another way in which self or I'll crack your case is used only use the fat like diamonds it can be used on other places too besides we have happened to be model needs right now perhaps the trousers heaven has another extra feature over there and that's the little pocket at the waistline this can be even move this fast around the bell women like pockets in their garments to carry facial tissue and maybe just a little cosmetics or something like this or note the telephone with all those things and this little pocket is put on there can be evenly we think it's very handy for the women now packing just hug her trousers a little bit the leotard she has underneath them kind of clean through them can you just there we go so you smooth out the line it's a very smooth fitting fabric but over a pair of Lea cars which we needed for demonstration purposes it bunched up a little bit on earth now let's show the zipper because I think this is a very interesting technique these different come from the bottom of the track as I can see all the way to the waistline and this is very important I think for killing and sexually ey braces of any kind then they get in division if they need a little help of childish age it doesn't take the district's essence of justice down this also here's have an opportunity to wear clothes like other people wear and there's no feeling of discrimination here because he was different you see and if you are able to get the right kind of zipper maybe Keynesians it down from the top as well it's a little unusual different running on the track mostly but it's one that maybe there will be lucky enough to find not another idea I think for someone who is on crutches or perhaps uses a cane is a address that gives you a great deal of freedom yet gives you more freedom than perhaps just a skirt will give you these are cool apps and I suppose all of us is more culottes once in a while in our lives a very unusual runner because our model turns there it looks like a skirt could very well be worn for start out on the street or somewhere like that even do an afternoon coffee i would think actually in Buttonville you'll cease access these are cool I I wish you could see the handsome blue green of these that leads out fast I love is it blossoms first us together therefore color wise but this does give the chant of the girls a chance to well participate in least mild forms of athletics where they need a pant like garment but wants to look like a lady at times and wear a skirt and this also i may say is rather nice for wheelchair sitting because you do not need to worry about continually pulling down your skirt although you do have the fullness of a skirt and over a brace this would give you a great deal of movement as well the jacket maybe would need to be shortened a little bit for wheelchair where but certainly should be very nice if you had enlarged shoulders he'll you're seeing a red white blue outfit you can't see the red binding on television but it does make this a color combination of very affecting one here a white there is especially it's fun to have once in a while when we don't have to worry too much about the pair of garments we have some stretching that fabric to in this flight to live simply and her for button cold kind of puts on the Navy style for these are high fashion garments that they're wearing even though you and I have seen two lots many times it just because of the color and particulars filing on the neck gives it a high fashion herbal has compiled a lot of information that I know it's going to be of use to you not only construction ideas that how to remove spots and stains there is a folder on self-help features for children and there is also a little brochure on velcro the nylon pressure tapes that we've been talking about in some of these clothes and at the back there is a listing of the home economist and their counties and if you need help with specific construction problems of course I think the best thing to do is go to the Home Economist in your County and asked her help you and she uncertain will be glad to show you opal Roberson is our extension specialist in Texas here at Iowa State University during us tomorrow we'll be talking about children's clothes clothes that are specifically designed for the handicapped Oh