TANNI GREY ABLE TO LAUNCH FASHION RANGE

Hall 17 at Birmingham's NEC is a long way from the catwalks of Milan, but this week it saw the launch of a fashion range of arguably greater significance than anything you'll see worn by a size zero model. At the Naidex exhibition, medal winning athlete Tanni Grey Thompson introduced a new line for wheelchair users and other disabled people.

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[Fibbing01]

Sallyanne, I'd love you to send me a catalogue (if you produce one). The only trouble is I'm not keen to leave my contact details on a website like this. FYI I'm a full-time wheelchair user with polio and spina bifida.

[sallyannestephenson]

HI fibbing, it was in general to Tanni regarding the range, I think the t-shirts are great, i'd have to really, i've been running a business selling slogans like these for three years. they are giving kids confidence and raising awareness, its great. certainly no-one has been bullied, in fact kids are making more friends. i just wanted her to be aware that there is already something out there that is also protected under copyright.

thanks

sal

[Fibbing01]

Sallyanne, is that me your comment is addressed to, or xXstarheartsxX? Do you think a disabled child in a T-shirt with the slogan "DON'T STARE" emblazoned across it is setting the child up to be bullied?

[sallyannestephenson]

i'd be interested to see where you got your ideas from, i've had a web based business that has been selling t-shirts with these and other slogans for almost three years.

[xXstarheartsXx]

whats your point.

those clothes are so rubbish, do you know any teenagers becouse belive if a young person wore hat they would get their head kicked in and be more bloody special.

now stop trying to set yourself apart.

as for the vicky polard comment well that was just so retard are you that too as well as your hip and spine.

[Fibbing01]

Miss Starhearts, it seems that you are not only ignorant, you are also extremely rude (you're not Vicki Pollard in disguise, are you?) For your information I was born with Spina Bifida and Dislocated Hips and am a full-time wheelchair user. I would take your point, however, that equipment for disabled people is very expensive. But I am involved in neither the manufacture nor the marketing of it. Consequently I can't be making money out of special needs items in that case.

[xXstarheartsXx]

if you put a disabled child in a t shirt that reads 'don't stare' you are setting them up to be bullyed. all you want to do is make money and special needs items are always too exspensive and crap. Children can wear what all the other kids wear. You know nothing about mobility , your so full of shit

[xXstarheartsXx]

ignorant am i wtf well my kid is in a wheelchair and those clothes for so called specail kids are a fucking insult.

Just becouse a child has a disability they don't have to dress fucking retarded.

[Fibbing01]

Miss Starhearts, Tanni is NOT a patronising bitch, it's YOU who is IGNORANT. Of course kids in wheelchairs are entitled to wear anything, but Tanni's point is that not everything that can be bought for them in the High Street is practical or will fit properly.

So that's where the fashion range Tanni talks about in the film will come in so useful to mobility impaired children.

[xXstarheartsXx]

kids in wheelchairs can wear what all the kids wear ffs what a patronising bitch.

They are only sitting down so this is such bullshit