Early Fashion...remember this?

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Circa. 1970's. Crusty Old Bats!!

Just out of curiosity, how did one wash their cap if it got soiled? And were you able to get a new one if it got ruined?

Kay's caps both as original makers and via absorption of now defunct cap makers has the patterns for hundreds if not thousands. Their website/catalog lists the most common but if your particular school is not listed you can contact them for a custom order. Nurses Caps-Kays Caps Inc-Nursing Graduation Caps-Custom Nurses Caps, Nurses Cap-Nurses Week and Nurses Day,Nurses Uniforms

IIRC Kay's may require some sort of proof of graduation or otherwise authorization for certain school caps when placing a custom order. Don't think Bellevue's cap for instance is in their general catalog.

One difference you may notice is that a new school cap may not resemble yours in terms of materials. This is probably a natural outcome of changes to production and or supplies. For instance the current version of Saint Vincent's cap seems to have some sort of indentation in the center which the originals one remembers at least from the 1980's did not.

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Dontcha wonder what the thing is made of if it DISINTEGRATES with dry cleaning....?

Dry cleaning involves the use of solvents and as such certain finishes and or materials can suffer an adverse reaction. One assumes whatever material these "Perma-Starch" caps are made from and or the finish used to give that effect suffers from solvents and or heat of dry cleaning process.

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I like learning something new. Thanks :)

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Does anyone know if there's a company that cleans/restores nursing caps that have yellowed? I would really like to spruce mine up and then put it in a display box. I did do a google search, but I couldn't find anything. My school closed nearly 20 years ago, so I can't get another, and besides, a new one would have the sentimental feel of the old one.

Search out a place that offers "French Hand Laundry" and or "Textile Restoration" services. There are a few left in the USA but not as many as in years past.

If your cap does not require complicated laundering such as the "Perma-Starch" sort and you are comfortable with unfolding/laundering it yourself could offer some suggestions.

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Specializes in Maternity.

In nursing school we were never allowed to wear jeans to class. We always had wear professional clothes. Things have sure changed.

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Specializes in Adult ICU/PICU/NICU.

I still wear my whites AND my cap, proudly.

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They just banned wearing dresses or skirts at my facility. I was a little dismayed because I just read "The World According to Garp" and was thinking of wearing my old whites and cap all the time, like Garp's mom did :)

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Specializes in Critical care.
They just banned wearing dresses or skirts at my facility. I was a little dismayed because I just read "The World According to Garp" and was thinking of wearing my old whites and cap all the time, like Garp's mom did :)

What was was the reasoning behind banning skirts/ dresses? Is it an infection control issue?

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What was was the reasoning behind banning skirts/ dresses? Is it an infection control issue?

Ok, I'm almost afraid to ask how stockings and a skirt creates an infection control issue that pants don't. But....?

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Anyone have pictures of what male nurses used to wear?

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Ok, I'm almost afraid to ask how stockings and a skirt creates an infection control issue that pants don't. But....?

Actually there is an infection control issue with skirts and dresses which is the reason they were for the most part gotten shot of in OR, L&D and other units/floors where nurses once wore scrub dresses. They were replaced by the scrub pants and tops common today.

The idea is to contain "perineal fallout" from (to put it bluntly) beneath nurse's skirts. Where nurses or female physicians for religious or other reasons wish to wear scrub dresses "big girl" underpants must be worn with pantyhose (not suspender belt and stockings).

Considering what accounts for undergarments among young females today (thongs about the size of a postage stamp) banning skirts and dresses seems far less intrusive than coming up with an exhaustive list of "allowed" undergarments. Even better than deciding whom is going to check and by what method.

https://allnurses.com/operating-room-nursing/skirts-in-the-146292.html

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Note the sexy pose in second pic....lol

Oh I can top that! *LOL*

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