Designing Functional Clothes for Persons with Locomotor Disabilities

Abstract

The life quality improvement issue is a problem of national and international interest. This acquires total different values when it is to refer to a series of disadvantaged categories, that is the persons with locomotor disabilities. It is an inevitable social responsibility to create equal opportunities for disabled people, to prevent any intentional or unintentional discrimination that they face and apply positive discrimination if necessary to improve their living standards and to let them have an equal share from social development as productive individuals of society.

Keywords

• disabilities
• design
• integration
• functions
• sensations
• cool
• heating
• stitch