The challenges faced by nurses in 1918 and 2020 are strangely familiar, as one Vogue writer points out for our Past/Present column.
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The shortage of appropriate personal protective equipment has unexpectedly made medical apparel the subject of headlines. What is a new subject to the general public is an all too familiar one to many nurses and medical professionals who have had to resort to drastic, and often antiquated, means to ensure basic levels of protection. But this is hardly the first time in history nurses and other medical professionals have taken their safety into their own hands.
Over the decades, however, nurses were forced to make practical changes to the standard dress code in response to the demands in the field. The scale of World War I brought nurses directly into the mud-filled trenches of Europe, and skirts and capes were shortened to accommodate their increased physical labor. Similarly, the white nurse’s dress, once a symbol of purity and sanitation , was changed to a darker shade of gray to conceal blood and mud.
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