Dr. Yin’s work at AIR is cited in this article published by CBS Money Watch writer Megan Cerullo. In this article, Cerullo investigates the recent trend in the fashion industry to provide clothing for “non-standard body types” and what that means for the industry’s economic gain.
Americans with disabilities make up the third-largest market segment in the U.S., according to the federal Office of Disability Employment Policy. Collectively, they have disposable income of about $490 billion — that’s nearly as much as the purchasing power of each of the top two segments, African-Americans and Hispanics, according to American Institutes for Research (AIR). Yet many mainstream retailers largely ignore them, leaving medical supply companies as the primary source of so-called adaptive clothing… Read more here.