Sharawat & Hooda 2018 [49]

Not Applicable

Case study

India

1) The main problem for the physically challenged and elderly people was dressing-undressing. 2) They also wanted functionality in their garments, which made their lives easier and reduced effort. 3) They wanted comfortable clothes with functionality. 4) One major problem was also that most people did not know about functional garments and these garments were not available in local areas. 5) Only big brands sold these clothes (functional garments) at high prices. 6) People were ready to use functional garments but were not able to spend extra money on functional clothing. 7) Few people were ready to spend extra money for functional clothes. 8) Some functional garments were designed and finally constructed for physical disabled and elderly wearers. 9) Acceptance tests proved the success and encourage the efforts made to design these special garments.