Hope's Closet Serves Girls with Scoliosis

This new business, inspired by a 13-year-old and led by Long Grove and Buffalo Grove residents, specializes in clothing for youths being treated for scoliosis.

For the past year, Hope Schneider has had a hard time figuring out what to wear. Like any teen, she wants fashionable, flattering apparel. Finding the right fit is more difficult for her than for most because she needs clothing to go under and over the brace she wears for about 18 hours each day to treat her scoliosis. Particularly challenging while shopping in retail stores is finding tank tops that will shield her skin from the hard brace. Some have armholes that are too large, resulting in abrasions where the brace touches Schneider’s skin. Some are made of material that is quickly punctured by the brace. Others are made of thicker material that don’t let her skin breathe. And the rest, she said, are just plain unattractive. “There was …

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