Independent Living Institute introduces
Fashion Freaks – your dressing room on the Internet!

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 clothes that fit. 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!!

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 of clothing you want.

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

Fashion Freaks is about clothing for wheelchair users. On out website you will find patterns for downloading, simple sewing instructions, tips and other useful stuff. Here you will find everything you need to fix a wardrobe after your personal taste.

Visit us at www.independentliving.org/fashionfreaks

Independent Living Institute introducerar
Fashion Freaks – ditt provrum pånätet!

Fashion Freaks handlar om mode, kläder och fåfänga
ur ett sittande perspektiv.

Vi som sitter i rullstol vet hur svårt det är att hitta snygga och välsittande kläder. Kjolen åker upp bak. Byxorna skär in i ljumskvecken. Kavajen åker fram för varje rörelse tills axelvaddarna sitter som extrabröst vid nyckelbenen.
Det är inte roligt!

Det är inte så svårt som du tror att sy själv. Och när du har ett eget mönster kan du skapa vilka klädkombinationer och varianter du vill.

Med ditt eget mönster vågar du också låta en sömmerska sy upp plagg för det där speciella tillfället. Eller hitta skräddaren som syr upp motorcykelkläder och beställa läderjackan alla kommer vilja ha.

Fashion Freaks handlar om kläder till rullstolsanvändare. Påvår webbsajt hittar du mönster att ladda ner, enkla syinstruktioner, tips och annat användbart. Här finns allt det du behöver för att fixa en garderob som passar just din individuella stil.

Besök oss på www.independentliving.org/fashionfreaks


Other Services at the Independent Living Institute’s website

Study and Work Abroad for All: www.independentliving.org/studyworkabroad/
Our list of universities offering services for students with disabilities includes now over 1,000 institutions of higher learning in more than 50 countries. Our country guides contain information for disabled students as well as lists of organizations that can inform you about housing, transportation and personal assistance.

Accessible Vacation Home Exchange: www.independentliving.org/vacaswap.html
Swap your home during your next vacation with somebody in such destinations as France, Egypt the UK or Canada. We have over 100 attractive offers waiting for you! Our base of participants lists the accessible features of their homes and dates they wish to travel.

Assistant Referral Service: www.independentliving.org/assex/index.html
Many persons with extensive disabilities use paid workers for such daily tasks as getting bathed and dressed, shopping, driving their car, assistance at work for those tasks they cannot do by themselves. Our referral service matches assistance users and assistants in their hometown or in other parts of the world, for live-in or part- time positions or as travel companions.

Global Networking: www.independentliving.org/donet/index.html
Global Networking now has 300 organizations from around the world offering information to partner organizations for joint projects, events, sharing resource persons for lectures, training or technical assistance, for study visits, internships or other cooperation including funding. Add your organization now.

Our Online Library: www.independentliving.org/library.html
Check out our ever-growing full-text on-line library containing hundreds of articles on independent living, Universal Design, human rights, legislation, progressive programs and other examples of good practice, women with disabilities, assistive devices, national policies of various countries, and much more, so check back often!

Get Published: www.independentliving.org/publish.html
Expose your articles, reports, training manuals or other resources to people with disabilities, researchers, service providers, government officials and policymakers all over the world.

Index of Previous Newsletters: www.independentliving.org/newsletter/newsltrindex.html

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