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Taylor: Building Stylish Medical-Grade Compression Fashion Line

Day 3 · 7:34:58 · Shawn Buckley · Drew Taylor · Dean Allison

  • 👗 VISP has not replaced income, so she is designing faux-leather dresses with full medical compression underneath.
  • 📱 TikTok lives revealed thousands of young POTS patients desperate for affordable, stylish compression.
  • ✨ Goal is dignity and hope: look good while keeping blood from pooling from toes past bra-line and into arms.

Entrepreneurial response to both personal need and community demand for better compression wear.

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Transcript

Shawn Buckley · 7:34:59

And so can you share with us? And it's compression clothing because there's so many people like you that you've learned through social media that there's actually a demand. And you see, this is actually part of the story that there could be so many people that need compression clothes, like young people that need compression clothes. Can you just kind of share with us what you're doing and how this came about?

Drew Taylor · 7:35:24

Sure. So, well, the vaccine injury program was supposed to essentially replace my income, but they have yet to do that. Uh, so I've had to find my own way to survive, and my husband has multiple sclerosis, and my kids are young, so obviously the help that we're getting is not enough to support the family. So I've definitely been on social media. I do have a stage name on social media. However, I have found through going live on TikTok for the last few years, so thousands, thousands of people are suffering from postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome or like it, and the need for compression is quite high. So yes, I am in the works of making a dress line and that's, that's faux leather so that we can keep our style, but it's full medical-grade compression underneath. So that way you don't have to worry about spending $300 for medical-grade compression, which we're— I'm supposed to have full compression from toe just past bra line. And honestly, my arms blood pool as well as a symptom.

Drew Taylor · 7:36:24

So I prefer to have full sleeves often that are compressive. And yes, I can't wait to be able to, to do this more. But This community needs to have some kind of hope and some kind of light. And I think that taking away our fashion is like, obviously it's not the first thing that we think about when we're sick, but when you're constantly sick and you know, you can't even leave your house, I feel like it's important to remember to take care of ourselves, obviously. And part of that is feeling good and feeling like you look good. So why not create a medical line of compression that also has style?

Shawn Buckley · 7:37:00

Yeah, thank you. Those are my questions.

Dean Allison · 7:37:04

Okay. Hi, Drew. Hi. Good to see you. I got a couple— I got— we're going to ask a couple of questions from some of the MPs that are here. I got Arnold Bierstein, who's from Alberta. He's going to— he's going to ask a question. Then I have a question afterwards as well.