About the ProductHope's Embrace®, our inaugural product, is a cute and comfortable brace undershirt, worn under a scoliosis brace to prevent chafing and perspiration. It is also designed to help boost the confidence and brace compliance of girls in their adolescent and teen years.
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About the Company
Mission Our mission is to empower youth with idiopathic scoliosis by boosting confidence, self-esteem, and brace compliance. About Hope's Closet® was first to market with Cute and Comfortable Clothing for Scoliosis Brace Wearers. Hope’s Closet was founded in 2012 because my daughter, Hope, couldn’t and wouldn’t wear any of the available undershirts on the market under her Scoliosis brace. Brace shirts offered by orthotists and orthopedic supply companies were too drab and clinical looking. So, we tried lots of tank tops offered by popular girls’ retail stores. If we got lucky and found a shirt long enough to go under the brace, Hope would either sweat in that shirt, or get abrasions under her armpits because the undershirt holes were cut too low. Plus, none of the shirts held up against Hope’s brace or our laundry machine. After many frustrating trips to the mall and spending hundreds of dollars on shirts that simply did not work, Hope asked me why no one had designed a cute and comfortable shirt specifically to go under a Scoliosis brace. My daughter’s question was the seed that launched Hope’s Closet®. A brace shirt brand specifically for Scoliosis bracing that is known for its unique design and product features, which combine fashion with function. In the five plus years that we’ve been selling our Hope’s Embrace® undershirts, we’ve been told that our shirts have helped many children to meet their brace wear compliance hours. As Hope said, “I may not have control over how many hours I have to wear my brace, but at least I can make it more comfortable by wearing the right shirt under it!” Awards The Hope’s Embrace®™ tank top has not only earned the endorsement of Curvy Girls, the leading international support group for teens with scoliosis, but is endorsed by highly respected physicians, researchers, orthotists and physical therapists. |
Hope's Closet® History
HOPE’S CLOSET®/ALIGN TECHNOLOGIES® PARTNERSHIP - PRESS RELEASE
Dahlia Ronen and her daughter, Hope Schneider, are pleased to announce that they have entered into an EXCLUSIVE Agreement with Align Technologies®, the manufacturing arm of Align Clinic®, for the production and sale of their Hope’s Embrace® scoliosis brace undershirts. Ms. Ronen founded Hope’s Closet® in January 2012 after Hope, then 12 years old, experienced great difficulty wearing her scoliosis brace the required 16-20 hours a day. Hope refused to wear the brace shirt that her orthotist had given her, claiming that it was too heavy and unattractive. So, Ms. Ronen spent a significant amount of time and money in search of tank tops at the most popular girls’ retail stores. Unfortunately, none of those tank tops worked under Hope’s brace. Hope either perspired and developed heat rashes, or she got abrasions where her brace rubbed against her bare skin. At one point, Hope had to stop wearing her brace for two weeks due to the severity of her abrasions.
These brace wear challenges greatly concerned Ms. Ronen and led Hope to ask her mom why no one had designed a shirt specifically to be worn under scoliosis braces that would make the experience better and more comfortable. After consulting with a close friend who was an expert in textiles and design, Ms. Ronen launched Hope’s Closet®, a brace shirt line named after her daughter. Hope’s Closet® began selling its Hope’s Embrace® brace undershirt in September 2012. The shirt was designed to be fashionable and functional for most children with scoliosis who wear a brace, thereby helping them to meet the brace wear compliance challenge and build their self-esteem.
Grant Wood, Co-Founder of Align Technologies® and Align Clinic®, had always been very supportive of the Hope’s Closet® mission. He happily shared his knowledge and expertise to help expand the Hope’s Closet® line to include shirts with a reversible flap, so that braces like the Wood Cheneau Rigo would be more comfortable to wear.
After Hope’s Closet, Inc. announced that it would be closing at the end of December 2016, Align Technologies® offered to keep Hope’s legacy alive by partnering with the brand and becoming the exclusive manufacturer and provider of Hope’s Embrace® brace undershirts. Currently, Align Clinic® sells the Hope’s Embrace® undershirts through its locations in the USA (California
and Wisconsin) and Canada.
Not only does this partnership carry on the Hope’s Closet® mission of providing children with scoliosis with cute, comfortable and functional brace undershirts, but it embraces the notion that together practitioners and their patients can Shine Hope on Scoliosis Bracing®.
Dahlia Ronen and her daughter, Hope Schneider, are pleased to announce that they have entered into an EXCLUSIVE Agreement with Align Technologies®, the manufacturing arm of Align Clinic®, for the production and sale of their Hope’s Embrace® scoliosis brace undershirts. Ms. Ronen founded Hope’s Closet® in January 2012 after Hope, then 12 years old, experienced great difficulty wearing her scoliosis brace the required 16-20 hours a day. Hope refused to wear the brace shirt that her orthotist had given her, claiming that it was too heavy and unattractive. So, Ms. Ronen spent a significant amount of time and money in search of tank tops at the most popular girls’ retail stores. Unfortunately, none of those tank tops worked under Hope’s brace. Hope either perspired and developed heat rashes, or she got abrasions where her brace rubbed against her bare skin. At one point, Hope had to stop wearing her brace for two weeks due to the severity of her abrasions.
These brace wear challenges greatly concerned Ms. Ronen and led Hope to ask her mom why no one had designed a shirt specifically to be worn under scoliosis braces that would make the experience better and more comfortable. After consulting with a close friend who was an expert in textiles and design, Ms. Ronen launched Hope’s Closet®, a brace shirt line named after her daughter. Hope’s Closet® began selling its Hope’s Embrace® brace undershirt in September 2012. The shirt was designed to be fashionable and functional for most children with scoliosis who wear a brace, thereby helping them to meet the brace wear compliance challenge and build their self-esteem.
Grant Wood, Co-Founder of Align Technologies® and Align Clinic®, had always been very supportive of the Hope’s Closet® mission. He happily shared his knowledge and expertise to help expand the Hope’s Closet® line to include shirts with a reversible flap, so that braces like the Wood Cheneau Rigo would be more comfortable to wear.
After Hope’s Closet, Inc. announced that it would be closing at the end of December 2016, Align Technologies® offered to keep Hope’s legacy alive by partnering with the brand and becoming the exclusive manufacturer and provider of Hope’s Embrace® brace undershirts. Currently, Align Clinic® sells the Hope’s Embrace® undershirts through its locations in the USA (California
and Wisconsin) and Canada.
Not only does this partnership carry on the Hope’s Closet® mission of providing children with scoliosis with cute, comfortable and functional brace undershirts, but it embraces the notion that together practitioners and their patients can Shine Hope on Scoliosis Bracing®.
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.
By Cristel Mohrman, Patch Staff | Oct 10, 2012 4:12 pm ET | Updated Oct 13, 2012 4:27 pm ET
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 nothing really out there. There was this shirt, but it was ugly and it didn't keep you cool," the 13-year-old said. Going without an undershirt isn't an option, she added.
"Otherwise, you get skin rashes and you can't wear the brace altogether," she said.
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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.
By Cristel Mohrman, Patch Staff | Oct 10, 2012 4:12 pm ET | Updated Oct 13, 2012 4:27 pm ET
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 nothing really out there. There was this shirt, but it was ugly and it didn't keep you cool," the 13-year-old said. Going without an undershirt isn't an option, she added.
"Otherwise, you get skin rashes and you can't wear the brace altogether," she said.
More...
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