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How we can create fashion that is inclusive and adaptive
Though I am mobile without the aid of a wheelchair (unlike Becky), my awkward gait is a noticeable marker of physical disability, and I have used walkers in the past and currently wear ankle-foot orthoses to gain greater balance.
No doubt, the giver of the Becky doll wanted me to have a toy that made me feel represented as a child with a physical disability. This impulse is positive, and Becky has helped girls who use wheelchairs see themselves in the world.
As I played with Becky, however, I couldn’t help noticing the ways her body and her clothes marked her as unlike my other Barbie dolls. Her knees were bendable, which, looking back, actually made her more mobile than my typically straight-legged dolls. At the time, her bent knees just emphasized to me the degree to which she belonged in her chair and not with the other Barbies.
Worse, she did not come with the satin party dresses and spiked heels that accompanied my favorite Barbies — accessories that telegraphed the exciting mysteries of adulthood. Instead, she wore pants and sneakers that seemed casual and boring. Combined, these differences worked to tell me that bodies with disabilities, bodies like mine, should be concerned with function rather than fashion.
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