[Hoozdo]

Originally Posted by CrunchRN

No T-shirt is fine - we all (almost all) have hair on our bodies and heads. What is so different about chest hair?

And besides...........a t-shirt is HOT to wear under scrubs!

[Marie_LPN]

Originally Posted by RNstudentBrian

Wait, I just thought of this.

What about a FEMALE with chest hair? Should she be required to wear a T-Shirt.

Why should the requirements for the female witht his be different for the males.

[Lucid Vital Nurse]

If you have chest hair, then it should be covered up. It's just boils down to looking professional, as a nurse.

[SteveRN21]

I find it amusing that the poll results FOR wearing a shirt correlate with the # of female voters, and vice versa for the men.....

[imenid37]

Here's a cottage industry..how about those dickies (that is what they were called back in the day) for under men's scrub tops? An industrious nurse could start producing these again. They are like a false shirt for underneath a sweater. Back in the 80's, you could put one under a sweater to look like you had a turtleneck on. I don't care about chest hair, if it isn't spilling over like a vine down the side of a building! I agree, neck and back hair all over the place is yucky too.

[natania]

I love chest hair.

[smak60]

Lets just say I love a man with alot of chest hair but not at work !!

[anonymurse]

OK, let me take you back in history to the military side of this issue.

At one time, undershirts were the norm. I mean what we call today strap undershirts, what basketball players wear.

Then Jackie Kennedy, whom some may remember as the 60s' biggest influence on fashion (apologies to Twiggy and Rudi Gernreich, but the biggest) expressed her revulsion at seeing chest hair on military members of the Presidential entourage who wore open collars.

Overnight the word went out and the regulations were re-written to specify t-shirts. Now this was back in the day when a t-shirt had only one possible configuration--sleeved, and with a round, high collar.

This persisted into the late 80s, when the sight of an undershirt peeking from beneath a shirt was deemed declasse, and v-necks were made mandatory, at least for USAF ossifers (I would dearly love to discover the motivator for the reversal).

I don't remember what 3-star we had running Eight Air Force at the time, oh yeah, it was Ed Harris, but as the story goes, one hapless butterbar reported to his office wearing an old-school non-v t-shirt, and the General grabbed him by the shirt, dragged him over his desktop, fished a pair of scissors out of his desk drawer, and v-necked his t-shirt on the spot.

The wonderful world of fashion. Gotta love it.

[Diary/Dairy]

Keep things covered up folks -

Chest hair -

Breasts

Thongs/Back

It's just more professional that way.

[styRN]

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