Low rider pants on nurses

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It's becoming a problem in many workplaces according to yesterday's Wall Street Journal: Low rider pants.

I'm seeing some nurses wearing them, and they're steadily moving south of propriety in my opinion. Latest styles are all flared, too.

It's one thing to stand at a bar wearing them, or accept a Grammy wearing them. But in a nursing setting...?

Specializes in Home care, assisted living.

I think tapered legs or the ones that have the knit cuff on the bottom make women look like their hips are ten tons wide, no matter how skinny their hips/thighs actually are. Not to mention, who really wants to see the tops of your socks??? Ewwww! The tops of my socks and shoes have not been shown to the public in ten years, thank god! That's why the flare leg/boot cut pants are great!

On short folks or those with large hips (me on both counts!), "straight leg" or tapered pants are a NO-NO :nono: because they make the hips look like a pumpkin!

Unfortunately, I learned this fashion tip AFTER I spent $50 on a nice pair of work khakis that don't even look good on me! :angryfire (I thought it was just my shape that was the problem...nope...it was the shape of the pants!!)

Next time, I'm going for a flared pant (nothing extreme). Sigh...live and learn...

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Specializes in CCU.

I could not agree with you more.

This showing off of skin is entirely unprofessional, low class and degrading. Be proud of being a nurse. Be distinguished by your brillance and capacities to forsee complications.

Anyways, once you'll be as old as me, your exterior beauty would be fading and your inner one... (well hopefully) would be comforting, to say the least! :saint:

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I wear the Dickies low rise pants too, with a scrub top long enough to cover any skin. I also wear an undershirt. I think the short top with the ultra low rise scrubs is a bit much though (I think dickies has a line like this called "hipflips") At least the way they are shown on the models.

While I agree that one goes to work to work, not be in a fashion show. I still do try to look "cute " when I go to work. Not sexy or anything, but I do try to look nice. Since I cant wear "cute" clothes, I'll wear different necklaces or wear a pretty hair clip or something to make me feel nice. I guess I'm just vain like that. I don't flip my hair around in emergencies and I'm not afraid to work.

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Specializes in ICU, telemetry, LTAC.
Lordy, I'm 24 and I feel sooo old and unhip. People in my class were complaining about the dress guidelines. People, we have a uniform, we are professional graduate students, suck it up. Sorry you can't keep the bullring in your septum! hee, I originally wrote 'sternum' there. We actually have an unofficial dress code for didactic classes too, and I don't mind. I taught the girls in my class the old ballerina hair net trick for a perfect, no-wispies bun.

I have to ask: What is the "old ballerina hair net trick?" Wispies in the bun were the main reason I cut off my hair during school!

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For crying out loud! Nursing is NOT a fashion contest! If you feel a strong need to look "fashionable"--especially in a "Hoochie-Momma" kind of way, find a dance pole. Nurses have worked for decades to present an image that is professional, intelligent, and reassuring. Students, especially, should be sent home! ttt

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I personally love to wear scrub pants with a slight flare since I'm a shorty. The flare is not extreme and I feel that it is the most flattering style for me.

I dont have the figure or the desire to contemplate loriders for myself...but as long as things (midriffs) are kept well covered at all times, why not if one prefers them for comfort? I know that a lot of younger girls now really hate anything, elastic or otherwise. around their waist. They have gotten accustomed to low-slung pants as being all they wear - as the mom of a 15year old I can vouch for that first hand. That does not automatically give one license to expose the midriff, though. If low pants are worn the top or jacket needs to be long enough to cover even when squatting/bending over.

All that said, I agree that there needs to be more emphasis on professionalism in attire universally in our profession. That encompasses other things too, like no excessive makeup, no fake nails, no excessive jewelry and no perfume, etc. And no nose piercings - I dont care how small!!!!

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The waist of my schools nursing uniform pants reach all the way up to my bra :rotfl: !!!! It is so uncomfortable. I tried on a pair of "low rider" pants. They are nothing extreme. The waist sets just below the belly button. When bending over you could see no underwear. I don't see why people think these pants are so terrible. I think they are much more comfortable than high waisted pants. I think it is more of a generational thing, my mom (not a nurse) loves high waisted tapered legged pants. :rolleyes:

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Specializes in Happily semi-retired; excited for the whole whammy.

I'd like to clarify my earlier response, based on subsequent postsI don't think it is any big deal where the waistband is if its covered. When I responded, I assumed we were talking about the low riders that you could actually tell were low riders, d/t skin showing. (Otherwise, how could what I didn't see bother me?) I just really dislike it when pants are worn low enough, or tops high enough, that skin appears at any point, when the nurse bends over, stoops down, etc. And don't even get me started on having to watch people pulling their pants up, because they've slipped down too far, or tugging at their top to pull it down. That makes me truly crazy! It looks very unprofessional, too. It sounds like that isn't happening for a lot of the people who elect to wear these pants, though.

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All that said, I agree that there needs to be more emphasis on professionalism in attire universally in our profession. That encompasses other things too, like no excessive makeup, no fake nails, no excessive jewelry and no perfume, etc. And no nose piercings - I dont care how small!!!!

sometimes nose piercings are a cultural thing but other than that, ita w/your philosophy.

however there's been many a time i've gone to work and have had pts and my colleagues state that i smell so good....all i had 'applied' was johnson's baby lotion. :chuckle does that count as perfume?

leslie

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Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.

I will say, though, when i've seen the flare legged pants at work, the majority were dragging the floor, and the cuff looked filthy.

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I can't believe this is an issue. The truth is, times have changed. I will be wearing bootcut, low-rise scrubs and feel they look way more professional than high-water scrubs that suffocate the ankles. I've grown up wearing low-rise, and they do not equate slutty.

In fact, at the university I am attending, the required scrub pants are described as "low-rise." Thank the lord!

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Old post, Athena. And there is a difference between low-rise and low-RIDER.

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