Most people don’t think twice about what they are doing when they get dressed in the morning, but for anyone with a disability, dressing yourself can be an almost impossible task with all of the tiny buttons, zippers, and ties.
When Mindy Scheier gave birth to her son Oliver, they found out he had a rare form of Muscular Dystrophy and as he got older, it quickly became clear that normal clothes were too difficult for him to put on without help.
When Oliver came home one day asking Scheier if he could wear jeans to school like the other kids, she knew there wouldn’t be enough room for his leg braces, but never wanted her son to feel different.
“I was faced with a difficult decision, do I let my son walk safely into school in sweatpants and his braces on — no jeans,” Scheier said. “Or do I let him walk into school in jeans but without braces, which is unsafe but would allow him to hold his head up high because he looks like the other kids do? It was at that moment that I decided that no mother should have to make that difficult decision for their child.”
Scheier, who had a background in fashion, got to work in starting Runway of Dreams where she could make stylish, normal clothing with undetectable modifications so that anyone with a disability could easily dress themselves, or a caretaker could dress them faster.
Scheier’s clothes give kids and adults independence in being able to choose the kinds of clothes they want to wear, and allow many to dress themselves for the first time in their lives.
The clothing line was instantly a hit, and so far, Tommy Hilfiger has picked up Scheier’s designs so people everywhere could have access to her life-changing clothing.
Watch the entire video below to see the incredible way this mom is changing how disabled people dress themselves.
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Inspiring Mom Makes Stylish Clothing Available For People With Disabilities is an article from: LifeDaily