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Mainstream adaptive fashion lines are relatively new, but creating clothes to fit and flatter a range of bodies has long been part of disability culture. Anita meets three disabled fashionistas who design with disabled bodies as a starting point, not an afterthought.

Tens of thousands of nail salons across the U.S. are places of connection, reinvention, and community. They also make up a multi-billion dollar industry that tells stories about power and economic mobility. Why are nails so culturally and economically significant?

Social worker turned fashion therapist Marisol Collete has tips, and a worksheet, for making your wardrobe fit the real you.

Anita's nail habit has evolved in the past decade from $10 drop-in manicures to 90 minute appointments with a nail artist. That artist joins her for a conversation about how Black women have shaped nail culture. Plus a fashion historian details nail history from Egyptian mummies to 鈥�90s Chanel colors, and a Vietnamese-American woman tells the story of growing up inside her parents' nail salons.

Devil-Dog Dungarees is a family-owned men鈥檚 lifestyle company that started off manufacturing jeans. Through its clothing, the company supports the Wounded Warrior Project, a non-profit that helps veterans.

You鈥檝e likely heard the statistic that 80% of bra-wearers aren鈥檛 wearing the correct fit. Finding the 鈥渞ight鈥� bra means negotiating a tricky balance of form, aesthetic and function 鈥� not to mention the cultural baggage associated with breasts and the garments that support them.

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The world of lingerie is as varied and interesting as any other realm of fashion ... and can be an opportunity for playfulness and exploration as well as comfort.

Anita stopped wearing real bras in the pandemic. But that doesn't mean she's stopped eyeing lingerie. Lingerie aficionados 鈥� including a historian, model and designer 鈥� take her inside the world of undergarments: from the history of crotchless panties to how folks are rethinking intimate apparel design to fit a wider range of bodies.

Street fashion is a venue for activism, according to Eric Ndelo. Through screen printing, he has elevated social justice movements like Black Lives鈥�