Check Out These 11 Adaptive Clothing Lines for Kids with Disabilities

Getting dressed can be one complicated endeavor too many for parents of kids with special needs, who might run into trouble when trying to fit traditional kids’ clothing over a wheelchair, leg brace, or onto a little one that doesn’t like certain fabrics or tight styles. However, these brands are making fashionable styles just as accessible for kids with disabilities through adaptive clothing that promotes comfort, independence, and inclusion. Check out these lines and start shopping!

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Tommy Adaptive
Tommy Hilfiger’s adaptive line has pants, shirts, skirts, jackets, and dresses–over 100 styles!–that feature hidden Velcro, easy-to-wear design, and more. You can shop by solution in order to find the right clothes for easy closure, outfits for kids with prosthetics, fits for ease of movement, and all sorts of styles for kids in wheelchairs. The clothes have the look and feel of classic Tommy designs, so every kid can show off their preppy style!

Myself Belts
These colorful and fun belts feature an innovative design kids and do and undo with one hand, giving them independence while making getting dressed or undressed, using the bathroom, and so much more a little easier.

Patti & Ricky
This inclusive marketplace consists of more than 65 designers making functional, adaptive, stylish designs for adults and kids with disabilities. However, Patti & Ricky isn’t just for clothes–the kids section also features art supplies, bibs and bandanas, Braille-printed jewelry, books, “chewlery”, eye patches, wheelchair bags, weighted blankets, and more!

Independence Day Adaptive
This line features clothes that can be worn frontwards or backwards–some can even be worn three different ways–in loose-fitting, comfortable, breezy fabrics that are right for almost everyone. Independence clothes are affordable and suitable for kids or teenagers.

PBS Kids + Zappos Adaptive
PBS Kids and Zappos Adaptive teamed up to create gender-neutral, reversible, supersoft, buttonless pieces that help kids relax in style while getting dressed easily. No matter what your little one is into–planes, rainforest animals, dinosaurs, or sea creatures–they’ll be able to find a set they love. Zappos Adaptive on its own offers parents 12 different criteria for shopping for their child with special needs, including options that are magnetic, perfect for post-surgery, reversible, or suited for kids in treatment.