white scrub tops and males

[jltbone]

So my current employer's uniform policy is navy, brown, or gray scrub tops and bottom or white scrub top with one of the other color pants. they are now requiring all nurses to wear white scrub tops and black or royal blue bottoms. Does anyone this that this is dumb looking on guys. I wear navy, that what all guys wear for the most part. but the hospital just got a new logo and wants the nurses to be distinguishable from other staff members. I pretty sure the patients know that there nurse isnt the person with the linen cart or cleaning cart and Drs ussually just ask people at the desk who has Mr. or Mrs. so and so. I just think that white tops look so dumb. I mean Im embarressed to get off and go out in public in white tops. it seems to me that they are not taking male nurses into consideration with this choice. Thoughts?

[KeepItRealRN, BSN, RN]

And what does working in OR or anesthesia have to do with manliness?

It is simply common knowledge. Ask any man in those areas and he will confirm it as fact. I have to believe they have super secret by-laws too. Theirs probably allow for the wearing of scrub jackets.

[RN_Dan]

If I'm cold, I wear a warmup/scrub jacket and I don't care what others think (and I'm 100% straight).

[HouTx, BSN, MSN, EdD]

Crusty ol' Bat here..... just wanted to say how much I love this thread. Very entertaining. I didn't realize that fashion choices were such a hot topic among the menz.

[VampyrSlayer, CNA]

I say we move on from discussing the homosexuality of white tops and discuss whose brilliant idea it was to put a bunch of child bearing age females (there are no males in my class) in white pants. Yikes! Now THAT should be a crime.

[RN_Dan]

So much for political correctness..,

[KeepItRealRN, BSN, RN]

If I'm cold, I wear a warmup/scrub jacket and I don't care what others think (and I'm 100% straight).

Straight men world wide need you to blaze the trail to increase straight male fashion choices.

[zieglarf, LVN]

When I graduated LVN school my wife asked if I would wear pink scrubs. I went and bought a pink top with black pants and wore them once a week for almost a year. I never got accused of being gay. A color is just a color - who cares.

Do the clothes make the man or does the man make the clothes?

[BonhamsGhost]

Regardless of the alleged sexual undertones of white scrubs, whether they are tops, bottoms, or both, my opinion is that white LOOKS BAD. Talk about a color that shows every little spec of "whatever."!! Maybe they just like white so that they just end up in a big pool of bleach??