How do blind people identify their clothes?
Most articles of clothing will have at least one distinct way of identifying them by feel. They will have different buttons or the fabric or texture will be different. Dresses, skirts, and pants will have belts or elastic at the waist or different kinds of pockets. For example, you can tell that the green blouse has the fuzzy collar and matches the green pants with the belt that feels like rope. In this way, blind people can learn to tell their clothes apart by touch, and they can learn to tell what clothes match each other. If clothing feels the same, blind people may mark their clothes using Braille tags that are sewed to the clothes Another way would be to sew a button to the tag of a blue suit and cut out a corner of the tag on a gray suit. It helps to have a description of clothes that they buy at a store or receive as a gift.
Most articles of clothing have at least one distinct way of identifying them by feel. They have different buttons, snaps, bows, ties, or the fabrics or textures are different. Some dresses and skirts have belts or elastic at the waist or different kinds of pockets. We might know the red shirt is the one with the funny-shaped buttons, or the blue pants are the ones with no pockets. We can tell the blouse with the fuzzy collar is green and matches the green pants with the belt that feels like rope. In this way, we tell our clothes apart by touch, and we can tell what clothes match each other. Occasionally more than one shirt, blouse or tie feel alike. Some blind people mark their clothes in a special way to tell them apart. These methods include: using tags meant for sewing in Braille labels; a safety pin to identify a black pare of jeans; a button sewed on the tag of a blue suit and a cut-out corner on the tag of a gray sweater. Some people make a list of the suits, shirts, ties, and ot
