{"id":28284,"date":"2022-01-20T15:55:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T20:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/textiles.ncsu.edu\/news\/?p=18407"},"modified":"2023-12-01T13:38:21","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T18:38:21","slug":"fashion-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/textiles.ncsu.edu\/news\/2022\/01\/fashion-for-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Fashion For All\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
By Sarah Stone<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the end of the 2021 Threads Senior Collection<\/a> show, 321 Coffee<\/a> barista Matthew spoke to the audience about the impact of the \u201cSonder\u201d collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe look beautiful today, and because of that, we are confident.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Every fall, Wilson College of Textiles students enroll in the course to develop their own runway-ready collections<\/a>. Team members from 321 Coffee modeled Mary Grace Wilder and Sabrina Martin\u2019s collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI loved doing the fashion show with Mary Grace and it makes me happy,\u201d barista Dreyahna says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 321 Coffee employs baristas with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The small business, founded by NC State alumna Lindsay Wrege, made the perfect partner for \u201cSonder<\/a>,\u201d which aimed to showcase ways that beautiful and expressive clothing can be accessible to consumers anywhere on the spectrum of physical and cognitive abilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf you search adaptive clothing on Google, it\u2019s usually combined with the category of ‘senior clothing’ and ‘medical clothing,’ and it’s not the same,\u201d master\u2019s student Sabrina Martin says. \u201cThere are kids who have adaptive needs. There are teenagers. There are adults across every age, and the clothes you\u2019re wearing every day shouldn’t look like you just walked out of a hospital room.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n