Scrubs

Depends totally on the place you work. At my last job, the OR and L&D staff were assigned, and provided, certain scrubs. The rest of the floor staff were allowed to wear whatever kind of uniform they wanted, staying away from the "OR green" and "L&D blue." I've collected an absolutely staggering array of scrubs over the last five years....everything from leopard print to black/orange to my christmas tree uniform! Who says you can't be stylish AND professional at the same time???

My wife makes all of our scrubs. You should see our closet! 1/2 of the 14 foot long closet is a hugh collection of scrubs of all sorts of colors and patterns. All nice looking, professional, and comfortable. You can mix style, color, function, and still look professional. To hades with the solid white uniform! Go color!

Our instructor is awesome. Our school's policy on scrubs is solids that don't clash. After we started second year, our instructor said we could wear the prints, etc. Whatever we wanted as long we were "professional looking" with our scrubs freshly washed and pressed. A few of the uniform companies come around a couple of times a year and set up in one of the meeting rooms... they have some REALLY nice stuff, if not a little pricey. While the prints are really nice, and you can get some pretty wonderful looking stuff, I have recently started wearing the solids again (prints aren't as flattering to the figure, if you know what I mean).

Depends totally on where you work. Some places just give you certain colors and couple of designs to choose from and others let you wear whatever. My advice is just wait till you find somewhere to work because you never know. Its fun to have one that you fell in love with the design so you could wear it in a situation you didnt have to have a particular color on.

FWIW, locally the hospitals generally forbid black or denim.

While on the subject of scrubs, I am looking for cargo type pants that have the cuffs around the ankle in tall sizes. The one place that used to sell them stopped! I found one other place, Tafford, but they are of really bad quality. Any help is greatly appreciated!!! :-)

Kelly