Adaptive clothing with graphic prints designed to ease Parkinson's disease
The striped patterns on Monika Dugar's Reset clothing collection are not just for aesthetic impact ? they're meant to aid mobility in people with Parkinson's disease by "resetting" the brain.
A recent graduate of the London College of Fashion, Dugar was inspired to design the collection for her final-year project after her father was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.
The Reset line ? styled [R E S E T] ? has some features in common with other adaptive clothing, which allows people with restricted mobility to dress themselves by excluding finicky elements like buttons and zippers.
But it goes a step further by incorporating a graphic print that might improve mobility through visual cues.
Dugar based the print design on research that suggests a link between gait disorders and visual perception, in particular a the Journal of Neurology paper that looked at the effects of parallel pedestrian-crossing-style lines on a walking surface. In this study, the pattern has to be dynamic ? either the surface or the observer has to be moving ? to achieve the desired brain "reset". However, Dugar sought to replicate the effect of movement through optical illusion.
Its application on clothing should be useful for people with Parkinson's disease, because the involuntary trembling and diminished hand strength can make the act of getting dressed difficult.
Another feature of the Reset collection are the colours and cuts, which Dugar describes as "classic yet conte...
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