DePoy, Gilson discuss ‘adaptive fashion’ with FashionDive
FashionDive featured Elizabeth DePoy, a professor of social work and disabilities studies at the University of Maine, and her husband, Stephen Gilson, also a UMaine professor in social work and disabilities studies and the coordinator for the disabilities studies program, on the idea of “adaptive fashion” for people with disabilities. “I think adaptive fashion is a ridiculous moniker, and is exclusively capitalizing [on] and medicalizing a body that may not fit into what’s considered sized clothing,” DePoy said. She suggested that companies instead manufacture items with different features and in different sizes.