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Wheelchair Wedding Dressmaking

Wheelchair wedding dressmaking and Adaptive Fit!

How do you design a wedding dress for a bride who will spend most of her big day sitting down?

Garments are almost universally engineered around a standing body. When a bride uses a wheelchair, traditional tailoring rules fly out the window! Even after 25 years as a bridal designer, making a bespoke gown for Paralympic gold medalist Kylie Grimes completely flipped what I thought I knew on its head.

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