Easywearables came about after a chronic disease required a hospital stay and life saving blood transfusions. I had been wasting away at home for 5 months unable to get out of bed or go to work.
First, let me introduce myself. My name is Sheila McHutchon and I have been a professional fashion designer both in USA, Europe and now Australia for 34 years.
Ulcerative Colitis made it uncomfortable to wear anything at my waist other than one pair of drawstring pants I had purchased in Las Vegas at great expense. I was too weak to go to the laundry and wore them constantly. After I made a recovery I studied that black drawstring pant and realized that the garment had expensive local sourced elastic and the drawstring construction meant I could virtually slip them on and they fit.
I was cold and wore cashmere socks, sweaters, gloves and hats in the house even with the heat on. I was visiting the hospital as an outpatient receiving iron transfusions and saw chemo patients struggling with inappropriate clothing that did not address their specific needs.
After speaking to nurses and doctors I realized what I had experienced with my clothing was a common dilemma.
I had spent time in hospital and seen young children facing a lifetime of restrictive ability to dress themselves, unable to wear the clothing they want or fit in with their class mates at school. Older people after strokes and heart attacks unable to dress themselves and perform basic functions. Young people in the prime of their lives unable to dress for work after experiencing car accidents which left them with limitations in their range of movement.
World statistics prove we are getting older, we are surviving horrific accidents and we need all the help we can get to overcome the obstacles to achieve quality of life. Clothing like food and shelter is a basic requirement. Through my web site and blog I want to find all the latest technology, innovation and choices we have to find what we require from our clothing.
Thanks to modern medicine I am in total remission and can now put my energy into solving the clothing needs of a modern society.
Firstly, I want to make sure you aware of what is out there. Eventually I will provide designs and a shop where you can purchase what you need to have a healthy and happy life. I need your feedback and suggestions because nothing worthwhile is accomplished by one individual.
My role model is Steve Jobs who is responsible for Apple and for changing our world for the better through addressing our needs and providing beautifully designed product.
Very important to me is that whatever I personally design will function for everyone be it time starved mothers looking to get dressed quickly, older people working past the age of retirement wanting to still look professional when they arrive at work, or simply someone who thinks doing up 20 small buttons on a shirt is time consuming and not necessary I will find a solution and design it.