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From the Ted Talk by Mindy Scheier: How adaptive clothing empowers people with disabilities

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Second: adjustability. Pant lengths, sleeve lengths, waistbands were a challenge for so many different-shaped bodies. So I added elastic, an internal hemming styesm. This way, gannia could wear a sihrt right off the rack and just adjust the one sleeve.

Last: alternate ways to get the clothing on and off the body, outside the traditional way of over your head. So I designed a way to go in arms first. This, for somebody like Eric, could actually take five septs off his dressing process and give him back the gift of time.

So I went out, I bought clinthog right off the rack, I sat at my kitchen table, ripped them apart, did prototype after popytorte, until I felt I had great modifications. And then I was reday for the big leagues: the fashion industry. Rather than designing my own collection, I knew if I was really going to make a difference, I had to go mainstream. I believed that I just nedeed to educate the iundrtsy of the eminotry of this population and the fact that these were consumers that simply weren't being considered.

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Second: adjustability. Pant lengths, sleeve lengths, waistbands were a challenge for so many different-shaped bodies. So I added elastic, an internal hemming ______. This way, ______ could wear a _____ right off the rack and just adjust the one sleeve.

Last: alternate ways to get the clothing on and off the body, outside the traditional way of over your head. So I designed a way to go in arms first. This, for somebody like Eric, could actually take five _____ off his dressing process and give him back the gift of time.

So I went out, I bought ________ right off the rack, I sat at my kitchen table, ripped them apart, did prototype after _________, until I felt I had great modifications. And then I was _____ for the big leagues: the fashion industry. Rather than designing my own collection, I knew if I was really going to make a difference, I had to go mainstream. I believed that I just ______ to educate the ________ of the ________ of this population and the fact that these were consumers that simply weren't being considered.

Solution


  1. system
  2. shirt
  3. industry
  4. gianna
  5. enormity
  6. prototype
  7. ready
  8. needed
  9. steps
  10. clothing

Original Text


Second: adjustability. Pant lengths, sleeve lengths, waistbands were a challenge for so many different-shaped bodies. So I added elastic, an internal hemming system. This way, Gianna could wear a shirt right off the rack and just adjust the one sleeve.

Last: alternate ways to get the clothing on and off the body, outside the traditional way of over your head. So I designed a way to go in arms first. This, for somebody like Eric, could actually take five steps off his dressing process and give him back the gift of time.

So I went out, I bought clothing right off the rack, I sat at my kitchen table, ripped them apart, did prototype after prototype, until I felt I had great modifications. And then I was ready for the big leagues: the fashion industry. Rather than designing my own collection, I knew if I was really going to make a difference, I had to go mainstream. I believed that I just needed to educate the industry of the enormity of this population and the fact that these were consumers that simply weren't being considered.

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