Before the 19th century, care was just another daily trivia or responsibility of women. Whether at home or on the street, women always use their parenting tendencies and instinctive care and healing abilities to comfort and in some cases heal patients and injured.

At home, women take care of their children and attend other children's births. Everyone can benefit from some first aid and midwifery knowledge before the hospital appears.

On the streets, unmarried women often travel in poor areas, cannot afford to call doctors at home, and provide services free of charge on behalf of local medical institutions or cities.

In the 19th century, the nurses wore a servant's uniform, a white gathered or banded hat and a long printed dress with a white apron. Some nurses start working for wealthy families, but most care is still on the streets as a profession. Therefore, care has not been well respected for a while. Nurses of this era have contributed to their own bad reputation to some extent. Without families, they often drink and carnival in their accommodation or in the basement of the hospital.

By the 1840s, regional nurses became more common and began to gain some respect. Some well-trained nurses working in urban or local health committees wear more ladylike and sometimes even healthier servant costume versions.

Because these newly trained nurses are recognized on the street, it is important to design outdoor and indoor uniform systems. When the nurses walked across the street [or riding a motorcycle!] in the slums, they wore cloaks, coats and warm hats, and then turned into beautiful white "indoor" hats and aprons.

By 1880, Florence Nightingale's work turned nursing into a more prestigious profession and established a school education system for nurses. They must have different uniforms in order to separate them from ordinary untrained women who are auxiliary tools in the military or a few hospitals.

A hat and band system was designed to identify different levels of nurses. Depending on the school, the nurse will use pink, blue or other soft ribbons as stars and then advance to a black ribbon. After three months of training, one trainee did not even wear a hat. Even so, her hat may be revoked because of bad behavior, such as smoking in a hospital. In the future, this ranking system will help the hat get rid of the unified fashion. The practice of using them for discipline will ultimately be considered cruel.

At the turn of the century, uniforms began to become more differentiated from the waiter's clothing. The dress has more details on the chest and collar [pocket, button top, pointed collar], a bib covering the torso, a waist gathered, and a skirt underneath. The fabric of the main fabric is very strong. This new custom look contrasts with the invisible apron and dress worn by ordinary servants.

The hat began to show the influence of the nun's headscarf, which made the nursing uniform a reference for respect. However, these two occupations sometimes merge, and the sister/nurse actually has some of the most amazing designs and amazing big hat care that will be seen.

At the beginning of the First World War, functionality became the most important feature of nurse uniforms. The war has brought countless casualties to nurses’ tents and must be taken care of quickly and effectively. The bulky apron sometimes disappears completely, and the cleanliness of the appearance will be on the side of the road. Skirts are shortened for better mobility, and short sleeves or rolled up sleeves become the norm.

This combination of functional requirements and the desire to maintain a feminine appearance of uniforms created by war is most familiar, perhaps the most attractive and useful nurse uniform in history – the one we think of when thinking of a nurse.

In the period of world war and the brief boom of the 1930s, nursing fashion began to imitate fashion. Nursing was a popular career for women at the time, and magazines and newspapers constantly called for recruiting new people. Women have only recently entered the labour market, and for young women, women's care is an attractive and exciting option compared to typing or sewing. This is a steady job, and the clothes she wears are great!

In the 1950s, the hat as a ranking identifier began to be no longer emphasized because it was thought that the system caused the trainee's morale to be low. The hat is also considered feminine, no longer needed, and the hospital hopes to attract more male trainees. Uniforms become less full, not even so complicated – bigger hospitals mean more patients and faster pace, washing clothes can't keep up. The simple folding hat and paper cap replaces the crown-like hat and is more comfortable, with fewer shapes fit on the dress. Everything must be washed and worn.

By the end of the 1970s, the hat had almost completely disappeared in the United States. A new trend in nursing fashion, the phenomenon of frosting appears on the scene [in any case, men]. The uniform began to look more like ordinary clothes, or in some cases like a doctor's coat. The hospital has started using AIDS and candy, and caregivers do not want to wear uniforms because these untrained staff must do so.

Today, the differences between nurses, doctors, staff, etc. are only indicated by attachments and name tags. In most American hospitals, everyone is often scrubbed to prevent the spread of infectious diseases. Doctors wear jackets, and nurses sometimes wear a warm jacket, but in most cases, men, women, doctors and support staff have some cool or loose harnesses and V-neck T-shirts. In the UK, uniforms are more widely used for care, and doctors still wear their own clothes outside of OR.

Today's matte has hundreds of styles, colors and patterns to choose from. Whether you are a woman who wants to fit, a male nurse who likes a dark wardrobe instead of the male nurse provided by the hospital, or a nurse who wants to illuminate the patient's day in a whimsical way, a lot of resources for nursing clothing are on the Internet today. Can provide even the most fashionable nurse, he or she needs everything to create the perfect care wardrobe.

History of nursing uniforms was originally published on Spring