“Have you ever thought about what it would be like to get dressed with only one hand?” For most of us, the answer to the question posed by Sarah Wharton, the Senior Director of Innovation and Integrated Marketing for Tommy Hilfiger, is almost certainly “no”.
Yet around 13% of the US population has some sort of disability, and of those, one in five face some sort of dressing challenge, she told the MRS Impact conference (March 2021). One example: the lawyer who has to get up half an hour early when appearing in court because it takes him that long...