Now, take into consideration that I was born 5 years after this show went off the air, but wasn't her uniform a little dated for the early '80's??? Weren't nurses wearing scrubs by then??? She looked like she walked out of a healthy life magazine from the '40's or something.

Scrubs are not as sexy :)

According to my mom (who is a retired nurse), scrubs didn't really become popular until the late 80s/early 90s. Male nurses were also becoming more common around that time, so that's one more reasons scrubs became popular. So Terri's uniform was still pretty much what real nurses were wearing in the early/mid 80s.

According to my mom (who is a retired nurse), scrubs didn't really become popular until the late 80s/early 90s. Male nurses were also becoming more common around that time, so that's one more reasons scrubs became popular. So Terri's uniform was still pretty much what real nurses were wearing in the early/mid 80s.

Interesting. Thanks for the info.

I think I speak for all the men here when I saw we'd prefer to see leggy lovely Terri OUT of her uniform!!

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Interesting. Thanks for the info.
You're welcome!! :D

I was a student nurse during the late 80's and we had to wear those awful white uniforms for clinicals. (but for the classroom lectures, you could wear anything you wanted, though)... If you wore something to clinicals with a little color in it, it counted against your grade. Also, nails were to be short, no nail polish, if you had long hair it had to be up, no jewelry except for your wedding band....

I was a student nurse during the late 80's and we had to wear those awful white uniforms for clinicals. (but for the classroom lectures, you could wear anything you wanted, though)... If you wore something to clinicals with a little color in it, it counted against your grade. Also, nails were to be short, no nail polish, if you had long hair it had to be up, no jewelry except for your wedding band....
That's what it was like when my mom was a nurse in the hospitals, but she spent the majority of her nursing career in home health care. They really didn't have uniforms, per se, but had to dress professionally and have to have their nursing pins on, etc.

I always wondered what era the white uniform gave way to the scrubs.......which BTW, too many people use them and you are not sure who is whom in regards to what in a hospital.

I was in a dental hygiene training program in the late 80's and scrubs were mainly for the men (doing the assisting program); the main uniform was the cute dress like Terry wore. (I didn't finish and one of my thoughts was that I'd miss wearing the cute outfit .....)