Fashion
Fashion show to celebrate young people with stoma bags
Like many teenage girls, Daisy, 15, loves fashion and experimenting with clothes.
When she was nine, she had surgery after years of suffering with a painful bowel condition called ulcerative colitis, which caused stomach aches, diarrhoea and bleeding.
Following her surgery, Daisy, from Redditch in Worcestershire, now has a stoma – an opening in her stomach where waste can be excreted into a stoma bag.
Daisy is under the care of Birmingham Children’s Hospital and will be part of an event to raise awareness of young people who have stomas. “I literally wear bikinis on holiday, I can wear whatever I want,” she said.
In March last year, fashion students from South & City College Birmingham partnered with the hospital to design a range of outfits for children with complex mobility issues.
Young patients then modelled the so-called adaptive clothing, including features like magnetic buttons and side zips, to make clothes easier to take on and off, in a fashion show.