The Able Label Blog

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. 

If you are about to have breast or chest surgery, it’s crucial to find the right bra to take into hospital and wear in the weeks immediately after your operation. It is not only crucial for effective support but will boost your confidence and keep you feeling you.

Lupus is an incurable immune system illness, probably genetic in origin and mainly suffered by females. It can affect any part of the body and that's the danger.

Lyn has suffered from Lupus for thirty-five years. As we are in Lupus Awareness Month, we would like to share her story.

We love a print here at The Able Label and this season, we have our new leaf print. It has already proven to be extremely popular with customers and having a dark base incorporating multiple colours in the design, it can be worn between seasons and in numerous ways.

We run through a few of our favourite options.

This week is National Sun Awareness Week. According to Cancer Research UK, melanoma skin cancer incidence rates in the UK are projected to rise by 7% by 2035. 

So what can you do to protect yourself from the sun?

The Able Label was founded by Katie after seeing the difficulties her grandmother faced dressing with Parkinson's. It was crucial that the clothes not only helped maintain independence and dignity but looked great too - being items women would want to wear regardless of ability or disability. This in-turn would also encourage confidence.

With this in mind, we are really excited to share our core values and beliefs. We'd love you to join everyone here at The Able Label as we do our best to live by this and celebrate fashion for all in 2019 and beyond.

4th February is World Cancer Day. Cancer is a disease which usually occurs when changes in a group of normal cells within the body lead to uncontrolled, abnormal growth forming a lump called a tumour. If left untreated, tumours can grow and spread into the surrounding normal tissue, or to other parts of the body via the bloodstream and lymphatic systems, and can affect the digestive, nervous and circulatory systems or release hormones that may affect body function.

There are several types of cancer but we spoke to breast cancer survivor, Valerie, to get her experience of cancer from beginning to end.