Today's Homemaker - Clothes for the Handicapped, Part 3

back again with opal Robertson who is our extension clothing and textile specialist here at Iowa State University and I think we have some metal interesting styles to show today oh yes we do and pretty one too and partners at their treaty if we control some of the first ones Pat Cory of course is wearing a ver Maxwell tweed suit can you tell us about this suit opal well yes I'd like to this is also one of the functional fashion that you just mentioned and has several features i think that the handicapped people stood using their garments first of all a button down the front blouse and jacket which is real handy i think for most of them now it also has another feature I think that deserve special notice nothing that a cropped jacket this Jackie comes just above the hips of path you'll see that all will and filled is all nicely together and the car combination which you can't see a very exceptional look very important also for people to have the right color if Pat would just turn now I'd like to show you the fitting of this skirt it's important that skirt fits down past the hips they can get in and out a wheelchair easier if they don't drag fabrics also the skirt is for enough for them to step our eating with a crutch are over a break but it still fits her body figure easy it's not extra fabric there it just simply fit Oh for a fashion garment like this it's very important that they see it but also allow ease of movement for getting in and out of chairs and also for you some great isn't Russia now from winner we go to something that's a little more light and summer wear with their house well a bathtub is the really wearing a very fresh-looking garment a like a dream and light beige kick a woven in kick which is extra special for ironing goin two iron with the grain line and don't get the garments out of things portion her belt allows for expansion there it is used at the waist line with the bar and hook which could be made expandable you see and sometimes when women sit for a long time they do need a little waist expansion there this stuff could be moved a little bit are the bars and Duluth it is a double breasted garment there which I think a lot of the women like it gives a little bit more warmth in winter time and the skirt allows for easy movement however this skirt to fit around hip which again is important so darkness won't sag and drag now one of the features that I thought we would especially like to show was on a blouse show an inset sweet that would give you much more freedom this blouse was designed by the united states department of agriculture and can you tell us about the news I'd like to tell you about this because really it's quite simple and I think the women might have Baptist you patterns which you buy on the market actually as we stretch this underneath the arm now this is just a to bias and course bias will stretch put in with a very small seen here on each edge of the vice this would go into the single ounce on the pattern this gives extra eath here for reaching both ways up and down and cross place and also when the block is being worn this pleat simply does not show until you need it for extra stretch movement may I call attention to who's the lining in the bottom of this blouse this has been used in several of the blouses we haven't always shown it to you but it is a good idea to put a slippery fabric on the bottom of the glass which will roll over the hip it is the hips that catch the blouse and make it tougher and not go down and play so a Selectric fabric I believe this one is rayon you might find under so now we can go back to our models because it's extra funded few days on the models first we see Clara Brown and she is in a garment that has also been designed by the united states department of agriculture and one of their early research projects this is what we call an action really because it's cut so that she can move her arms there yes this way and in and out and to the front it has an action feature in it now another feature about this blouse which we hadn't talked about a great deal which i think you should think about when you buy your fabrics particular to the pan handicaps and care is a factor and this has a little texture in the blouse which means that it doesn't show wrinkles quite as much as if it were a plain fabric wouldn't have to be pressed so much also the feature at the end of the blouse over just above our risk there you will see the business cut and designed especially for movement if you'll move her arm upward you'll see that this little overlap on the sleeve he'll turn this kind of ease or movement it wouldn't be hard to London now Danilo Meyer is in what we would call a paprika wolves two-piece outfit it's a dress underneath with a jacket over the top yes enough happens to be a very handsome color in this typeface justify her hairy pits o'clock we always emphasize the color when we repeated so this was maybe designed especially for her even Russia isn't and cap a very nice princess of design apprentice designs have to have a good thing you're not everyone can wear this that happened that she has me if the bus is filled out nice easy waistline rather small but very pretty and a full flash skirt these buttons down the back of you can show them to you our kind of extra special because the buttonholes are tailor-made and these are bone buttons we don't always have bone buttons on this but for handicapped people it's important that the button go in and out of the buttonhole without dragging and the bone button will do this it's nice easy coolness over the bus put in with this particular curve is rather exceptional because it takes a nice big you to worry we used arts an awful lot of times but this is another way of getting ease of annals of luck soreness and yet have it fit very well in denial of course is wearing a design from Helen cookman now a design that is available for you from a catalog is being worn by risa tapper and Theresa tapper is wearing a jumper that overlaps in the back this is a blue light weight wool and we figured cotton easy to care for blouse I think one feature of this blouse again would be the collar Sin City cause not too many others can wear that color it takes the rug rather regular features not too sore neck with this groundhog and one that stands out from the strokes on too but that's a very pretty one for a young person I would say a heavyweight person couldn't quite easy one of these but certainly this is rock easy skirt again for braces are crushes and I think the girls have handled it very well in all your care for me too now if Teresa could show her a sleeve and the fact that it does not button there is a button on the top but it fastens with velcro and the side of the blouse is completely open it closes with velcro so it so that it is very easy to put on it goes all the way from the full-length underneath the blouse sleeve all the way down the side of her blog now another garment since we mentioned wrap arounds as the jumper is a wraparound skirt that we'd like to show you that too is available from a catalog this wraparound skirt of closes with a pressure taste here and you'll hear it fuck you would call caring but of course it doesn't care this then lets the placket drop down and this so does infuser to get into also there are no little buttons or buttonholes of hooks and eyes that sort of closure for our fingers that can't manipulate these small pieces of the other of accessories on a garment we do have a tie here to which you can add to this garment sort of giving us more width and using the ties to reinforce the waistline here if they won't expand bases can be expanded with the specified and also keep it in place with a little time now Joyce guy is wearing a blue wool dress that is most attractive on her open down the front as you see way down below the waistline with a long line zipper and this semester women need to get this on over their heads easily even when their arms are not employees or they might step into it from the bottom if they wish you and pull it up over the knees whichever is the easy or a handicapped person to do I think could be done with this outfit you'll also notice that there are not very many trails on the Starman simply because the Christmas line itself is what we're trying to feature also the color of the fabric is nice in this world crazy Ruth chuckleheads on and all occasion dress another a very pretty one in a solid color light blue double-breasted bear with buttons on each side so again this could be expanded if necessary this nuts call it time to give the sailor look which is the fashion element to off and on on right now this garment would be very nice to who we're in the afternoon when she cleans up after a hard day's work also easy to get in that off and the closings are made of velcro next is Pat Corey and what I'd call a peasant dress and this rippers down the front so it allows her to get in and out of this very easily and she's in a wheelchair and this would give her a great deal of benefit extra movement across the shoulders there with elastic out in that waistline what's the ease in it it's the east asian face is necessary or at the same place otherwise it just wouldn't fit use around the waistline again with the last now as we go back to a jacket that we have on the table that shows you a pleat that gives extra fullness in the back and this is something that probably was used many years ago and could be used again very nicely for those who need extra movement in the clothing that they are wearing there is also a pleat in the front which i think is most attractive and here again gives you the necessary movement that you need if you're in a wheelchair or on crutches now the handicapped can look very well at home too Darlene engelhardt has on a evening skirt that can be worn for a long dinner skirt at home the blouse is most attractive it has a gilt-edged buckle so there is very easy for the handicapped person to manipulate with their fingers and the long skirt of course is a very heavy fabric and it is one that can be used to camouflage as well Nick's to Darlene is Clara Brown who is wearing a rather elegant hostess gown miss is purple silk and it is a sign new silk and it is most beautiful cut shorter in the front and longer in the back we want to thank all of the ladies today for showing these clothes that have been designed specifically for the handicapped and some of them available through a catalog others are by top dress designers opal Roberson is our extension specialist in Texas and clothing here at Iowa State will see you tomorrow with more on pose for the handicapped Oh