Quote Originally Posted by Stephenie S View Post
...we look like Walmart employees.

OMG, that's SO funny.

Now, when I was in high school (1956) one of my closest GFs went to nursing school. The uniform she had to wear was awesome. A full navy skirt with a light blue and white striped blouse, covered with a white starched pinafore. White garter belt or girdle, white hose, white soft soled shoes, and the most gorgeous navy blue wool cape with a scarlet lining that you ever saw. And of course, a cap. She, and the other nursing students were required to fall out in uniform in front of the building within 10 minutes day or night. She told me that most girls slept in their uniforms because it took so long to get completely dressed.

I would kill for one of those wool capes today (no, not really).

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Yep! There's an upper part of the nursing building that I am at that looks like a church (it has a gold domed ceiling), but has really old pictures of people hanging on the walls. We joke that this area is haunted and that you can see the old nursing students that killed themselves after a bad Foundations test walking the halls. They totally wore that little get-up that you describe.

I would be down with that outfit. I would mostly prefer scrubs. It could be argued that scrubs are unisex, but women's scrubs are designed for women. They look alright.

I had to wear my hell wardrobe today. I woke up late and I told my SO, "Well, they tell us to wear minimal makeup? How about no makeup? That's pretty minimal." He laughed. During class we had a little side not added that if we were makeup most days, we should do so for our patients.

Apparently I look REALLY HEINOUS in the uniform and no makeup.

We also got a class memo about our white uniforms that we could either get the white dress or the white shirt and pants. The guys in my class joked that they were getting the white dresses. I (jokingly) told them that this was a profession and not some sick way to act out on their naughty nurse fantasies. One of them chimed in and said that the only reason he joined was because we get out own gas masks in anesthesia school. I admitted I did it for the same reasons.

There are no gas masks given for us to wear in anesthesia school, btw. They actually dress exceedingly normal in that half of the building. It's just the rookie RN students that get to dress like a weird combo of Best Buy employees/Pat from SNL.

Kill me.