Company improves on adaptive clothes
22.05.12
FOR Lorraine Oliver, designing clothes is about improving her clients' quality of life.
For years, Oliver worked in the administrative offices at Kiwanis Care Centre in North Vancouver. During her daily interactions with residents and care aides, she heard about problems with the design of adaptive clothing that was being used by clients at the centre.
So she decided to do something about it. "I really got interested in it and came up with some patterns that worked," she says.
In 2006, Oliver designed a few patterns for adaptive clothing with improvements based on the concerns she heard while working with people in care.
Soon after, she and her husband moved to Vancouver Island, and Oliver took up the cause full time. She now owns Cut Outs Design, which specializes in clothing adapted for easy dress and undress, specifically for people in wheelchairs or those who otherwise require assistance dressing. The name of the company was inspired by Oliver's love of paper dolls when she was a kid.
Source: North Shore News