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Adaptive clothing
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Aug 25, 2026
Sugandha Gupta On Accessible Design And Embodied Justice
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56:13Jillian KirwanHOST
But like, do you think who you are as a designer and your approach to design both fashion and as a textile designer would have been different had those principles been incorporated within, within your education? Like within the formal parts of your education, if that makes sense.
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56:33Sugandha GuptaGUEST
I want to backtrack a little bit because I want to make sure that we talk about adaptive fashion also.
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56:39Sugandha GuptaGUEST
Yes.
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56:40Sugandha GuptaGUEST
Because I think that my problem with the word adaptive fashion is not that it is... catering to or centering people with disabilities.
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56:53Jillian KirwanHOST
Right, that's not the issue.
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56:54Sugandha GuptaGUEST
That's not the issue that both of us understand because we know full well that there is a need.
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58:01Sugandha GuptaGUEST
yeah it's all about tailoring to specific bodies then how experience of disability not included in that every body is so different even the non-disabled bodies every body has different curves different widths different you know torso heights different limb lengths there's so much variation that It's impossible to, and that's why we have such a confusing and convoluted sizing industry.
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58:29Sugandha GuptaGUEST
And nobody, like regardless of disability, is able to fully understand a fit, which I just heard yesterday in Avery Truffleman's podcast, which I want to give a shout out to.