[Blindtlk] clothes shopping

[Chris Nusbaum]

Hi Julie,

While I'm not a lady, I might be able to give you a good 
resource.  :) The ACB does a show on their ACB Radio Internet 
radio station called ACB Reports, which is a monthly news 
magazine for blind people, especially ACB members.  I only listen 
to it to stay informed, not because I'm an ACB member, by the 
way.  :) Sometimes, a lady named Lynn Kooper comes on there to 
give men's and women's fassion tips for each season or time of 
year.  Since she herself is blind, she describes the clothes very 
well and sometimes talks about accessible Web sites that offer 
clothes shopping.  Lynn represents something called the Mirrors 
Project, which deals with fashion for blind people.  Since I 
don't have a direct link to the project, I'd suggest just 
Googling the Mirrors Project.  You can find the 2011 episodes of 
ACB Reports, some of which Lynn appears on, at acb.org under 
Publication and Media, then ACB Reports.  You can find some older 
shows on acbradio.org under On Demand, then ACB Reports.  
Unfortunately, that is the extent of my knowledge on this 
subject, so you may need to talk to some other people on this 
list for more information.  * Smiles! Hope this helps in some 
small way!

Chris

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 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Julie J." <julielj at neb.rr.com
To: Blind Talk Mailing List <blindtlk at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:03:12 -0500
Subject: [Blindtlk] clothes shopping

Hello ladies!

I'm wondering if any of you have favorite web sites where you 
shop for
work clothes.   I'm looking for business casual attire in classic
colors, like navy, black, dark green, dark brown etc.  I've 
looked at a
lot of web sites and haven't found any that describe the clothes 
very
well.   Or if they do have good descriptions the site is 
difficult to
navigate with JAWS.  My absolute ideal would be if they made 
suggestions
of what matched with what, but so far I haven't found any that 
do.

I need to do most of my clothes shopping on the internet.  There 
is only
one womens clothing store in the town where I live.   I do travel 
to
other towns and take advantage of the shopping opportunity when I 
can,
but I still like to shop on my own at home on the internet.

All recommendations are welcome! Thanks in advance,
Julie

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