The new nursing uniforms have changed a lot from the past.

Nursing uniforms were not always the uniforms that you see today. As history reveals the original care givers were nuns and their uniforms were derived from their habit for identification.

During the Civil War, the style of the nursing uniforms remained pretty much the same, nurses wore simple black, gray, or brown dresses with a white apron. Nurses also wore a white cap so they could be easily identified.

During the early twentieth century, the color of scrubs changed to white. White was the color for sterility and cleanliness.
This portrayed the nurse as clean and sanitary and this was very important to the people the nurses cared for.
For many years, these were considered to be the only thing for medical uniforms. It consisted of a white dress, white hose, white shoes, and a white cap.

In the mid twentieth century however, the all white scrubs changed forever. Nurses from all the states started to wear the new colorful, and printed designs scrubs, of the new stylish uniforms.

And even now these nursing scrub uniforms are going strong, and worn by almost everyone, in the medical profession.