Twin sisters set up new shop after looking at a price tag

Two sisters are trying their best to ensure everyone gets a chance to go to the party, no matter what.

Sarah and Steph, 46, are twin sisters who set up a business aimed at making fashion affordable and accessible for all.

Located in a stall at The Greatie Market on Great Homer Street, their Community Interest Company called Jeans Sparkles creates affordable dresses for people in wheelchairs or who have a stoma or IV.

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Along with their accessibility for those with limited mobility, customers can hire dresses for special occasions, whether that be for prom or another social event, at half the retail price.

Running since May 2023, the sisters named the company after their mother, Jean, who died in 2017. They came up with the idea when their niece, Molly, was getting ready for her prom.

Sarah said: “The dresses were starting out at £500. That’s quite out of a lot of families’ reach at the moment. We started researching, and Stephanie started buying dresses. She’s got 100 dresses now.”

Steph acts as the buyer for the company, going up and down the country buying stock for their shop, while Sarah focuses more on the website and production side of the company.

Steph and Sarah’s ‘Dresses With Dignity’ range are the dresses that are specially adapted for those who are in a wheelchair, or for those who wear stomas or catheters. Their primary goal is to ensure that people have independence for the entirety of the event they attend.

Sarah said: “[The reaction] is unbelievable. The response we get from families, mums, in particular, is [that it is] a big weight off their heads.

“This one event can be so