Design Without Limits addresses the design and production of fashionable and functional clothing for physically disabled men and women. It focuses on persons using wheelchairs, crutches and prostheses and on persons with limited mobility. Chase and Quinn attempt to educate the general public about individuals whose fashion needs have long been overlooked by the design community and even by the individuals themselves. They help the reader understand that people with disabilities can look and feel great and that style is available to everyone.
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| Preface |
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Issues of Limited Dexterity |
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Measurements, Patterns, Fabrication |
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Renee Weiss Chase is director of the fashion design program at Drexel University and a member of the International Textile and Apparel Association and the Fashion Group of Philadelphia. In 2002, she won the Lindback Teaching Award and the Philadelphia Parkinsons Council Award. M. Dolores Quinn is professor emeritus at Drexel University, where she was director of the Fashion Design Research Studio. The studio was established to study the clothing needs of the physically disabled. She served on the board of directors for the Philadelphia Fashion Group and was a member of the Association of College Professors of Textile and Clothing. Dolores also published two articles in the Journal of Home Economics.
