Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Scan any well-stocked newsstand, and you'll no doubt find a bounty of women's magazines touting tips for achieving bouncy hair, kissable lips and a cellulite-free derriere.
What you won't see are headlines hyping haute insulin pumps, artful colostomy pouches or flirty tracheostomy covers. Meanwhile, there are countless women dealing with the daily challenge of feeling beautiful while tethered to a device that's necessary to stay alive, but often unlovely to look at.
In decades past, people with external medical appliances were sentenced to life of voluminous "clown clothes" (as one ileostomy wearer puts it) and counseled to hide their conditions as best they could. But in this golden age of Internet community, designers and patients are taking matters into their own hands to create clothing and accessories that help women feel gorgeous in their own skin -- and spark conversation about a previously taboo topic.
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/03/living/disability-fashion/index.html
What you won't see are headlines hyping haute insulin pumps, artful colostomy pouches or flirty tracheostomy covers. Meanwhile, there are countless women dealing with the daily challenge of feeling beautiful while tethered to a device that's necessary to stay alive, but often unlovely to look at.
In decades past, people with external medical appliances were sentenced to life of voluminous "clown clothes" (as one ileostomy wearer puts it) and counseled to hide their conditions as best they could. But in this golden age of Internet community, designers and patients are taking matters into their own hands to create clothing and accessories that help women feel gorgeous in their own skin -- and spark conversation about a previously taboo topic.
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/03/living/disability-fashion/index.html