Crotch too tight?

Thomas_VDK

Hello everyone!

I’m Thomas, a final-year student in fashion technology at the University of Applied Sciences in Ghent. For my thesis, I’m researching a new pair of pants for wheelchair users.

Because of this, I was wondering if anyone has ever been bothered by the crotch of a pair of pants? Wheelchair users often pull their pants as high as possible, which can cause the crotch to sit tight against the body.

Please share your opinion through this poll. Your input is valuable!
Thank you very much!

Littlefatfriend

Hi Thomas

Do you mean trousers or underpants?

For over 30 years I've worn suits and jeans made by Rolli-moden in Germany.

They're designed for wheelchair users and therefore the jackets are cut higher and the trousers made significantly taller at the back and front, in order to accommodate a seated posture and the way paralysed bodies tend to rest.

I've never found an issue with underwear.

Good luck

JF7891

Yes, the crotch of a pants have bothered me.

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/129035/crotch-too-tight

Could you please also tell someone to bloody make plus sized T-Shirts for male stoma wearers? I literally asked every single outlet online and phoned them all, and asked at specialised disability clothing, my doctors, nurses everyone. In the end I had to buy women's plus sized T-Shirts from ASOS instead. XXL doesn't mean squad, you know that, neither das 3XL, they'll just make them as short as a hankerchief, it needs to be long and covering the stoma and go further.

Thomas_VDK

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/978388#Comment_978388

I mean trousers, not underpants.

Thanks for the tip about Rolli-moden.

The thing that bothers me about the crotch is that I don't like how it looks, the tension that get created there I don't like. The posture will also influence this I guess. My legs are squeezed together so I already have a lot tension.

Here is a picture of me wearing pants from some wheelchair brand

And this is me wearing one of the trousers I made for my thesis. My crotch has a lot more space in this.

Thomas_VDK

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/978396#Comment_978396

You just need longer T-shirts in your size? Or could something else also be useful? Maybe an opening somewhere for a tube maybe?

Littlefatfriend

My Rolli trousers have plenty of space in the crotch. I'm confident it's more than "normal" trousers would be.

I suggest you explore how they do their thing (they're very open about it on their website and when I've contacted them) and add that to your research. Their head tailor is/was a very capable lady. However I know there are situations where their design could be made more bespoke.

In the early 90s I visited their base in a beautifully mountainous part of Germany to be measured for my suits and those trousers catered for my needs extremely well until about six years ago when my right leg was removed. That's now requiring me to adapt their trousers.

Personalisation can be key, my legs weren't drawn together and we're all different.

Good luck

HappyDays62

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/978396#Comment_978396

Have you checked out Jacamo? Here's a link to their plus-sized extra-long ts. Reasonably priced too.

https://www.jacamo.co.uk/shop/p/cr526?optionSize=7XL72%2F74

egister

No, the crotch of a pants doesn't bother me.

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/129035/crotch-too-tight

Could you share the names of the books that teach how to design clothes for the disabled?

Thomas_VDK

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/979052#Comment_979052

Hey, I haven't found books about clothing design for disabled people. My eduction is not focused on disabled people. I do my thesis about trousers for wheelchair users because I have spinal cord injury myself. But I'm inventing everything myself.

egister

No, the crotch of a pants doesn't bother me.

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/979619#Comment_979619

I see. When I used a wheelchair for a short time, I solved this problem with sports pants made of elastic fabric.

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