But nursing was changing: It was becoming a profession with standards of education, practice, behavior, and dress all its own. It is possible that as nurses began to see themselves as trained ...

Our earliest memory of wearing a uniform is in school. That’s what uniforms are for anyway, to signal our belonging to a collective (a school, a company, an army, etc.), unlike individual clothing, ...

From Florence Nightingale to Nurse Ratched, pristine white uniforms and crisply starched caps once made the American nurse instantly recognizable. But that iconic image is now a relic of the past. As ...

URGENT tests are being carried out after a number of nurses developed an allergic reaction to their new all-Wales uniform. The Western Mail understands about 2% of nurses in West and North Wales have ...

Nurses are divided over whether England should follow the lead of the other UK countries and introduce a national uniform. In a discussion on the matter at the Royal College of Nursing’s annual ...

Sheer dresses and short skirts may have been scandalous, but they were still a variation on the established theme of white dresses. Wearing pants was more daring, as well as significant. This was not ...