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Uniform Scrubs


These are types of scrub wears which were worn by all the healthcare professionals which at first was a pristine white dress which was accompanied by some polished clinic shoes and also a nurses cap and all these made the healthcare professional uniform which was worn by all the healthcare workers. Medical scrubs started being used mostly in hospital surgeons and again in operating room by staffs and was influenced more by the nature of the scrubs and their outstanding characteristics which they possessed for they could be cleaned or even laundered in hospitals very easily at very high temperatures and this helped to ensure that garments were free from bacteria and these made the garments very suitable to use at sterile conditions or even in operating rooms and again in infection control areas for it was very free from infection. During those days the color was purely green and blue and again there were no any available styles to chose from since they were made in one common style and again these scrubs were strictly unisex and they included unisex tops and pants.

Nursing scrubs gained the full acceptance to be used in health industry especially from hospital units to dental practices and also in physicians offices in the 1980s and this was mostly fueled by its outstanding nature where they were easy to wear, one could move freely when wearing them and they were easy to do their laundering and this is what mostly fueled the transition from the white dresses which were worn to the scrubs. Since more workers from the healthcare turned into using scrubs as their preferred uniform, the scrubs styles increased and for the scrubs to accommodate the diverse body styles for the nursing community, the scrub pants added more elastic waists, made scrubs which are petite and also which has tall lengths and there was also an increased size range . Scrubwear thus turned positively in the fashion industry and due to this, low rise, as well as cargo pants, were born and even the scrub tops was modified and added tunic styles and even these scrubs possessed button front options. In the 1990s the scrub fashion became fully modified and the scrubwear became cheap where one could get it at affordable prices and scrubs were made for different colors and there was a development of an online market for the scrubs and these scrubs were made of different styles, sizes as well as colors. Click on this web page to learn more: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/scrub-suit.

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