John’s Specialty Denims gives wheelchair customers with {custom} denims ordered not simply to suit, however to accommodate any disability-specific wants.
Two lifelong buddies, Darlene Martin and Cindy Harris-Gillham, based the corporate in 2020 after an extended historical past of working collectively at USA Denims. Their journey with custom-fitted denims for wheelchair customers began 25 years in the past when a younger man injured in a bull driving accident known as on the lookout for a pair of denims that match proper when he was seated. The 2 set to work designing the right sample for him.
Since then, they’ve developed a variety of customizable denims for wheelchair customers, together with choices like modified fronts to make it simpler to entry a colostomy bag or indwelling catheter. The denims are designed to rise larger within the again so you may tuck in your shirt and never have to fret about your pants driving down. Martin and Harris-Gillham use the softest, most sturdy denim they will discover and hand sew the pants to make sure that seams aren’t in locations which may trigger pores and skin issues. Plus, John’s Specialty Denims can alter sizing on particular person elements of their pants — entrance and rear waist top, waist circumference, leg taper and extra — to verify they give the impression of being and put on the way you need them to. “We make the denims to suit every particular person,” says Harris-Gillham.
Longtime buyer Patrick Simmons says that Martin and Harris-Gillham are doing greater than making denims — they helped him really feel like himself once more. After Simmons was injured and left Craig Hospital in 1994, he lived in sweatpants. “It simply didn’t really feel regular. I used to be a jeans-wearing man, and it was good to search out one thing that introduced again some type of normalcy,” he says. He’s stayed a buyer as a result of he hasn’t discovered adaptive choices that examine. “It’s exhausting to search out stuff that works nicely, lasts a very long time and nonetheless seems good, they usually present that,” he says.
John’s Specialty Denims provides customizable denims beginning at $105, and pullups, sweats, slacks and shorts starting from $75 to 105. All merchandise are hand-sewn in Oklahoma and shipped worldwide. Go to the corporate’s web site to study extra about its choices. You probably have any questions or want to order, name 918/379-5052.
