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sunshinefizzy · 01-21-2010, 07:37 PM

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.

matt41277 · 01-26-2010, 10:31 PM

Scrubs are not as sexy

catlover79 · 01-26-2010, 10:49 PM

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.

sunshinefizzy · 01-27-2010, 04:00 PM

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Originally Posted by catlover79

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.

Big3sCompanyFan · 01-27-2010, 05:02 PM

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

catlover79 · 01-27-2010, 05:17 PM

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Originally Posted by sunshinefizzy

Interesting. Thanks for the info.

You're welcome!!

Karen64 · 01-29-2010, 11:04 PM

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....

catlover79 · 04-25-2010, 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Karen64

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.

Jude The Obscure · 04-25-2010, 04:45 PM

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.

Chocolate Moose · 04-25-2010, 08:51 PM

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 .....)

01-21-2010, 07:37 PM	#1
sunshinefizzy Member Senior Member Join Date: Sep 27, 2006 Location: Craptown Posts: 2,054	Terri's uniform 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.

01-26-2010, 10:49 PM	#3
catlover79 God Bless Val Forum Addict Join Date: May 29, 2006 Location: Bewitched in Ohio Posts: 70,376	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.
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Karen64 Comedy Fan Senior Member Join Date: Mar 24, 2001 Location: Kansas Posts: 1,412	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....
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Chocolate Moose Member Forum 4000 Club Member Join Date: Jan 21, 2007 Location: Brooklyn, NY Posts: 4,886	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 .....)
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01-26-2010, 10:31 PM	#2
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01-27-2010, 05:02 PM	#5
Big3sCompanyFan Member Senior Member Join Date: Sep 16, 2003 Posts: 2,493	I think I speak for all the men here when I saw we'd prefer to see leggy lovely Terri OUT of her uniform!!

04-25-2010, 04:45 PM	#9
Jude The Obscure Retired Eternal Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Dec 10, 2006 Posts: 7,519	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.