21/08/2026
When designing adaptive clothing for our Little Trickers, flexibility isn’t just a nice-to-have feature—it’s essential for skin integrity and day-to-day comfort. 🩹🤍
Before the more technical drawings, I spent countless hours testing out ideas on standard vests.
This clip shows one of those early tests where I brought yet another basic baby vest to a dressmaker to test out abdominal/tummy access concepts (and a sneak peek of shoulder and arm access/openings). 🪡
It took two years of refining, testing, and listening to feedback to get from these early concepts to our final garments, but every iteration was so important.
Here’s why versatile abdominal access matters so much:
1️⃣ Multi-Directional Tube Access: Having poppers that allow tubing to exit from the left, right, or centre gives caregivers the ability to rotate entry sites and alternate exit points of tubing daily. This helps prevent skin breakdown, redness, and irritation caused by routing tubing through the exact same spot every single day. 🪄
2️⃣ Fuller Access for Inspections: Opening wider across the belly means quick, easy, gentle checks for skin, wound care, or tube sites, without awkward tugging or restricting movement, as well as exposing skin that doesn’t need to be exposed to the cold. 🤍
3️⃣ Combining Functional Points: Pairing abdominal access with shoulder poppers and nappy snaps creates a seamless dressing experience that minimises disruption for your little one. 💫
Parent feedback on these very early prototypes was so encouraging, and every single lesson learned over the last two years went straight into perfecting our final designs! 🚀
After years in the making, our very first product reveal is coming NEXT! Make sure to hit follow so you don’t miss the first reveal! 👇✨
