Adaptive Solutions & Customizations

As part of our Shop by Need guide, the Adaptive Solutions & Customizations main category offers a closer look at our most specialized clothing innovations and services. Each article begins by explaining a specific dressing challenge or need — and follows with product solutions designed to meet it.

This section includes Adaptive Clothing, VELCRO® Brand Fastener Clothing, Unique Alterations, No Metal Clothing, and Adaptable Designs. These categories explore practical ways Buck & Buck helps make dressing easier, whether independently or with assistance.

Adaptive Clothing focuses on garments designed for those who have difficulty with standard closures or range of motion. VELCRO® Brand Fastener Clothing offers easy alternatives to buttons and zippers for individuals with limited hand strength or arthritis.

Unique Alterations covers custom tailoring options beyond our standard adaptations, tailored to individual needs. No Metal Clothing features pants and tops without metal parts — ideal for wearers with sensitivities or those who prefer simple fasteners. Adaptable Designs includes mobility accessories like walker and wheelchair bags that help carry essentials hands-free.

Each solution is designed to improve comfort, safety, and independence — while maintaining a sense of personal style.

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Adaptive Clothing

Adaptive Clothing is clothing designed for people with physical disabilities or the elderly, who may experience difficulty dressing themselves due to an inability to manipulate closures, such as buttons and zippers, or due to a lack of a full range of motion required for self-dressing. Buck and Buck has designed a variety of adaptive clothing options based upon our own observations and from our discussions with customers like you. Our adaptive clothing designs promote independence in dressing and personal care for the wearer, and also provide ease in the dressing process for the caregiver. Look for our adaptive clothing symbol "AD" on our web pages.

Women's Styles: Assisted Dressing

3 Styles of Adaptive Pants for Women

Men's Styles: Assisted Dressing

VELCRO® Brand Fastener Clothing

Easy Dressing with VELCRO® brand fasteners. Buck and Buck carries a wide range of clothing with VELCRO® brand fasteners to make dressing easy. We feature this type of clothing because many of our elderly customers have difficulty with diminished hand strength that makes the daily act of dressing difficult. Reduced strength in the hands may be as a result of arthritis or other medical conditions, but whatever the cause, our goal is to help the elderly person maintain as much independence as possible. We substitute VELCRO® brand fasteners for buttons, snaps and zippers if adapting the garment will be helpful to the wearer and to the caregiver. If you see a particular style in our catalog and you need to have easy wear VELCRO® brand fasteners added, let us know.

Look for the AD symbol throughout our catalog. This symbol indicates adaptive clothing for the individual who needs help in dressing.

VELCRO® is a registered trademark of Velcro Industries B.V.

Women's Styles: Self Dressing

Women's Styles: Assisted Dressing

Men's Styles: Self Dressing

Men's Styles: Assisted Dressing

Unique Alterations

We pride oursleves in trying to accommodate your special clothing needs by creating unique, customized alterations in our clothing designs. Whether the challenge that you have is temporary or permanent, let us partner with you to create a garment that works!

As you can see in our "adaptive garment" selections marked with an AD in the catalog, many general alterations have already been made for women and men, but if you need something more customized please let us work with you.

Knee Braces

Sometimes knee braces are used to help create stability for women and men when standing and walking. Although the brace may be easy to put on before dressing, if pants are worn and you wish to remove the brace without undressing we will sew a zipper into the outside seam of the pants on the side of your choice, from the ankle to above the knee. This can be done on any of our womens and mens pants.

Women's

Men's

Urinary Catheters

If a urinary catheter is worn with a leg bag during the day, a zipper on the inside pant seam from the ankle to the knee can be inserted to allow for easy draining of the leg bag. Hook and loop closures can also be used if that would be easier for you to manipulate. Let us know your preference.

If the catheter is attached to a regular drainage bag we can make hook and loop closures on the outside seam of either or both pant legs to allow the tubing to exit from the pants and connect to the drainage bag hidden by one of our urinary drainage bag covers.

Leg Amputations

Access to a leg prosthetic may be facilitated by an ankle to knee zipper or hook and loop closures on the outside seam of any of our pants. Let us know which leg and how high on the leg you would like the alteration done.

No Metal Clothing

If you are looking for clothing with no metal, especially pants, we have the solution. Our metal free pants have VELCRO® fly closures for the man who may have allergies to some metals such as nickel, or just cannot manipulate zippers. Our women's pants are also metal free and are "pull on" with elastic waistbands. Take a look at some of our metal free pants for men and for women.

Women's Styles: Self Dressing

Men's Styles: Self Dressing

Adaptable Designs

Did you ever stop to think about how you would manage to carry all of your peresonal items if your mobility was either temporarily or permanently impaired? We liked Adaptable Designs walker bags, wheelchair bags, bedrails bags and more so much, we bought the company! All Adaptable Designs products are made in the USA and Buck & Buck is the exclusive source for these terrific accessories. Take a look and discover the product that will be the best fit for your needs

Wheelchair Accessories

Need help finding the right adaptive feature or custom solution? Just reach out, we’ll walk you through it.

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