How an outfit feels can be more important than how it looks, particularly when accessibility is an issue. Here is how four people balance style and comfort
Getting dressed is one of the few tasks we spend our entire lives doing. Most of the time it has to be done every morning, usually again before bed and sometimes we do it multiple times in a day.
Getting dressed can also be a collaborative project – like when we’re children, if we’ve fallen ill, or when something is particularly tricky to zip up alone. The nature of being human is that we move in and out of being dependent on other people.Fashion designer Nikki Hind favours reversible dresses, because you can never put them on inside out.
This also comes in handy if she spills something. “I bump into things and knock things over, not because I’m drunk, just because I can’t see where things are,” she says. “There is nothing worse than trying to look professional when you’ve spilled coffee down your top.” .
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