Getting Dressed in WW1 - VAD Nurse 

@@theredbear7174 that might be the reason, indeed.. But as my teacher told me, the countries had sth against each other even before the assassination His death was just a.. Umm.. A way to start what some wanted for a long time... Truly horrible if you think about it

@alpatr0s Not actually correct whilst the majority of VAD personel both Male and Female were volunteers there were suprisingly large numbers who were paid.

I was the like number 1,400.

they were truly heroes, not many realize the stress trauma and heartbreak that the job entailed, to the soldiers who they tended you could easily say that they were angels sent from above.

@@theredbear7174 things were heading that way already before archduke ferdinand was shot, it essentially was the spark that was needed to set it all off but even had he not war probably would still have broken out

Good lord, please no! XD

If you do it every day and know what your doing it usually takes less then 10 minutes.

It doesn't take a lot. Just discipline.

F no

I'm still wondering how people wake up every morning before alarm clock was invented

Xd

😂😂😂😂

@MUNIK its called a joke

Assuming she didn't oversleep, of course she'd take her time - because there's a war out there. Rushing through the morning she'd just end up sloppy, which would be detrimental to her work. This is a volunteer in a hospital going to her shift, presumably she has a pre-determined time to start working so it should be quite easy to get up in time and do a proper morning routine.

And she keeps tilting her head to the side everytime she looked in the mirror lol!

True it'd be like a romper or jumpsuit in this ti.e.

Right!? Like, I legit want to get several sets of antique underwear like that. It looks super comfy and with the added corset it's super cute.

Yeah. I wish I had a pattern

Alot of people now use them as club dresses or normal day outfits

@@newmilo3736 women have lost more than they've gained by walking around half naked almost every day of the week.

glamourdaze also very in practical for the work they were doing.

They actually aren’t 😂😂

glamourdaze v

Hellena Rose II They clearly don't only care about how the uniforms look seeing how their comment also included how this video was a wonderful tribute to the iconic VAD nurses

glamourdaze yes they are

Which one?

So did Empress Alexandra of Russia and her two eldest daughters Olga and Tatiana, they served as nurses in a hospital near their home

During the war the Czarina of Russia and two of her daughters were nurses to help with the war effort.

That's noble right there

aweee

@Choke Me If they were from WWI they probably wouldn't be alive because that was a real long time ago whereas some people are still alive from WWII but those people from WWII are close to their 100's

@@slavgurl8684 they said that because this video is based on ww1, not ww2

@@slavgurl8684both my grandparents are 93 and 83.

@@jjyo3353 that means they're born after WW1 - which was 1914 to 1918.

@@MsMolly1988 yeah but what I said was that they are not 100 I know the I world wars was during 1914 and 1918

Yes!! And i feel theyre doing the same to scrubs because they keep making them like jogging outfits instead of actual uniforms to be more "fitted". Im like, noooo. Give me looser uniforms, cuz splatters.... i dropped a colostomy bag onto my leg once by accident and wasss so glad i could stuff the inside with a thick towel while i finished what i was doing....

Actually women had massive pockets for a large part of history! They were often attached to a band and tied around the waist, it's really unfortunate that we've lost that in favor of tight, uncomfortable skinny jeans. 😕

SpaceCat Scribbles I wish this type of dress would come back into fashion I miss having pockets and I hate having to wear skinny jeans but they are the only kind I can find in stores 😪

The world isn’t fair anymore is it?

Pockets have been a thing on womens garments since at least the 12th century. Probably before too. Idk where we went wrong...

One?! I need @ least a week!

dozens of days.

@@originallilmisstex weeks? That’ll take me months!

@@pofromteletubbies1243 months?I spent 6 years trying to memorize the dress codes and I still don't memorize them!

@@danahalqhatani4902 Years? It would take me a century!

Lol probably. 😂

Did you mean because of the periods or blood from injured soliders Edit: I figured out how retarded I was when I wrote this _sorry_

Elinpelin 08 ugh

@@peachybeck I'm just asking?

Elinpelin 08 BAHAHAHAHA

Same

Where you from ?? 😘😘😘

Abodawood Alsadi Get your ass outta here

@@abodawoodalsadi4366 boi if you don't -

Haha

That actually happened 40% of the time during WW2 and vice versa. There was a syndrome for that I think

😅

​@@jeremiah3355Nightingale Effect

My mom was a Captain in the Army Nurse Corp in WW2. Stationed on Kwajelein island. The Marines were "her boys" although she was hardly older than they were.

@@stevemiller7433 bukkake?

@@jasmine-je4gv ?

Same, except she doesn't talk much. Except when she's yelling at me lol

@@stevemiller7433 - Thanks a million times over for your mother's service to all "her boys" and to the country for which she risked her own life, and for which she could help save countless lives. She, and her sister nurses of every other country fighting against the tyranny that threatened their freedom, deserve to be decorated for their heroism, in spite of the fact that, like all true heroes, they feel they don't deserve such recognition, as they were only doing "their job" - helping their fellow man. For anyone who still "doesn't get it," I will say this. Every nurse in the military drew the same risk as every other nurse as far as that risk was concerned. Whether the nurse served in Europe, Great Britain, Asia, Africa, the Pacific, or remained in the States, was not her call. She served where she was most needed, and where she was assigned. The biggest difference is that every single woman who served in the US Army and Navy Nurse Corps put her own life on the line voluntarily, because she knew she was needed, and that she could help save men's lives, not as a part of any draft or any other kind of requirement that she be there. At the same time, Nursing was the ONLY female profession that was put under the purview of the War Manpower Commission after Pearl Harbor. Nurses in the Pacific put their own lives on the line in a million different ways, and many Navy Nurses were held as P.O.W.'s by the Japanese for over three years. They continued to function as nurses within the camp to help treat other similar P.O.W.s during the whole time they were there, and were all decorated after their release toward the end of the War. The only thing any of them asked at their release was to be sent back in to serve with the soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines who were fighting so bravely to bring an end to the conflict. There were nurses who served on Hospital Ships which were sunk by the Japanese, at terrible loss of life. Even with those ships carrying brightly lit emblems of mercy as required by the military and the code which was regularly ignored by the Japanese, the Geneva Convention. They served as Flight Nurses on aircraft which also were used to transport men and materials of war, and so were not allowed to display any kind of Red Cross or other emblem of mercy, since they had also been used to transport men and materials of war. They had to take their chances, and risk being shot down while trying to evacuate the wounded, and get themselves out of danger at the same time. And there were instances where they WERE shot down, while managing to save their patients at the same time, as well as instances where the nurses lost their own lives. There are numerous stories and books which have been written, recounting the heroism of these women. There are also many instances of official recounting of their selfless bravery, which were told by the MEN who were there. None of this serves to minimize the service of all the men who put themselves on the line, in every country fighting against tyranny, taken prisoner, or living during occupation by the Axis powers, but it should not minimize the bravery of the women who put themselves at risk voluntarily to get into the fight as well.

hi Loki, i’m your big fan :-)

Sameeeeeee!!!!

Lol the comments

It's those leg suspenders!

That's just plain stupid

Awww

You know, people marched off to die in trenches voluntarily too

Yep they did. But that is not the subject of this video.

@@SigandGibbs The soldiers were paid they weren't volunteers.

Julius von Brunk Ah, Squire.

Briseur De Lance what video was that?

Beaver Beats Julius von Brunk's comment is actually an extract from a video, in a RU-vid channel held by a British guy going by the alias "Squire".

Would you good sirs mind sharing the link to this?

@@Briselance you chaps never heard of black adder?

XxShadowBunnyxX Lmao corsets needed for good posture that's ludicrous! 😂 maybe in Planet of the Apes lol

@Claire Sterling Take it from someone who actually worn a corset, the corset was not the abusive torture devices you paint them as. In fact, women could ride and even do archery in them. The problem was that the corset tended to be over-tightened to achieve the hourglass figures.

@Claire Sterling Oh. You called it a stereotype of those being that. Sorry.

@@yikes7607 that's actually not that true. Certain corsets helped with alot of things and weren't restrictive. Multiple ladies of don't videos about it I'm sure you could find some if you can't take my word for it

@@yikes7607 Chill Feminist!

I'll take your entire stock

That’s cool I will be waiting for the book

let us know if you finish it! i’m sure many of us will be looking forward to reading it or checking it out.

Wow!

Love it

Tracee J I enjoyed reading your story and I'm sure your grandmother was a good nurse 🙂

Xavier Mondragon Jr thank you. I believe she was. My grandfather, her husband was a doctor. Together they did so much in our city for others. My mom would tell me stories about things they did. They made an impression on me to do for others. No matter how big or small the act is.

That's such a nice story:) my mom, her 2 sisters and their mom are all nurses so l have a lot of respect for them!

Bruce Kennewell Yeah, her voice is just so calming. It’s also good for the branding, I think. Sort of, “I’m here again to guide you through another daily routine for someone living in the ____ century.”

Thought she was boring lol sounded like Siri

Litchi When one narrates, they must be able to be heard very clearly, and not excitable as to not distract from the message.

Bruce Kennewell She sounds like Sigourney Weaver to me.

Jacqui805 I was gonna say the same, sounds like Sigourney (even though I know its not)

So many...so many

@@klillym1461 You think its more common than one might expect?

What am going ri say as nothing to do with nurses but I read a letter from a injured soldier in the hospital with other soldiers, and he wrote : I'm thinking about my mom, when she took care of me when I was sick, we I was little, and I know I'm not the only one doing it, because I hear the other crying for their moms" (parole de poilus, they were French soldiers so this is my traduction). Went I read that I was crying like how horrible this is, I sure all these moms felt their child crying for them.

And other one, in the same book, who the guy was a volunteer, and he wrote in his testament a letter were he said goodbye to his wife and children. He said so many time to his wife how he loved her and how she gave him the happiest moment of his life, and how he was sorry, "you would have to do the work of the father and the mother". And after he wrote a paragraph for his children (he had 4), he wrote "I sorry but I wouldn't be able to see you grew up" he said to his older daughter, who was the oldest child, "take care of your little sister and Two little brothers, show them the good way of life" "be good children and don't make your mom work to much, always be kind to here, because she is going to have to do a lot af thing, be always helpful" it was so cute and so sad, I was devastated, and he wrote that so beautifully, and the worst of all he survive by died of the Spanish flu in 1917

And the saddest one maybe, was when a soldier wrote to his mom, "I'm never going to come back, people weren't kind when I was their, they were almost surprised tthta I wasn't dead. I pasted wonderful times with you mom" "I hope I would died and not suffer from injuries the rest of my life"

Nathalie J Focusing only on the upper class would mean missing out of most of the history.

I thought they said high class women were the only ones who had enough money to get trained (I mean, not the highest class I suppose, but high enough)

Sarah Hamilfan thanks for the reply :) I found the main comment a little belittling for high class ladies (no offense intended! I get what you're saying!)

Sarah Hamilfan nah dude I think high class historical clothing is super interesting!! It’s like art, you know? Whereas working class stuff is more relatable and it’s easier to put yourself in their shoes (hah)!

Nathalie J didn't you listen these were high class women

Tifa Lockart Ikr 💓

That's what happened with hundreds of ill-omened soldier during the Great War. There are so many great stories of soldies and nurses who felt in love with each other during this war.

Not related but ARMY 💜💜💜💛💛💛🤍🤍🤍

Imma watch it now that was on my watch list

You had me learning again you sly dog

We stayed for the many pockets !

Nida Khatri f a c t s!!!

Hahahaha, same. Definitely came for the stockings! ^^

Indeed we are men of culture lol

My girlfriend gets excited when she finds dresses with pockets. It's so fascinating to me because all my jeans and shorts have pockets. Mind blowing stuff!! 😄

I got emotional at the end too!!

AliceWinter +

Resulka im wondering the same thing 😅

The combinations are open-legged, that means that the legs are not joined - they are open at the back from the waist to the crotch and the front the same though it has buttons.

Resulka I think she would lift all the skirts up (dress, petticoat, undergarment blouse). She's not wearing any panties or anything that needs to go "down". However everything can be lifted up, and the crotch area is basically naked, so she can relieve herself fully clothed. Even in the 50's when corsets, garters and stockings were a big thing, women wore underwear OVER the garters, so they only needed to pull off their underwear and they could sit on a toilet with their garters and corsets still on. This could have been done because women used to wear stockings, that left the crotch area naked. If they would wear pantyhose under a corset or a tight dress, it would be basically impossible to go to the toilet.

ust lift, squat, and go. No undies worn, those are a seriously modern invention. Even back then with the bigger long-leg undies some people wore, they were crotchless and split so women didn't have to take off a gazillion layers

ChibiStraws I hate to wonder, but how did they manage their periods?!

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@@teddy4400 u simp for comments?

@@AmazingRebel23 no but i do for some people

Lolzz......how extra😂😂

The Medic

Dave Marx yeah it’s funny how the more the years come the less the clothes become lmao

Lils because if a guy with a gunshot wound came in off an ambulance, getting into a scrub in 30 seconds is better than taking 15mins to get ready

Three, actually.

Ian Hayden they wouldnt be changing scrubs.

I should have died

This month marks the 100th aniversy of the influenza that was more devastating than ww1 itself.

I mean you could 😂

Do eeet. 😄

Congrats!! Wish you best of luck and happiness in your future!!:)

Commenting so I can be here when you gradurate!

I’m working on my FNP right now and this made me tear up.

Congrats!!

Exactly! I got surgery this summer and had to go to the doctor everyday bc the nurses had to clean the open wound. I got really attached to some of them who really made the long process a little more manageable and now that I'm almost healed I'm sad to have to say goodbye to them

look at the temperatures of homes ,,, huge change between then and now ,,

A Lovely Life With Luna Talking with my nurse sister and sister-in-law, they both wish they were allowed to wear long sleeves with their uniforms. My sister visits her patients in their homes, and the regulations for those nurses are a bit more relaxed (imagine if they weren’t allowed to wear coats in the winter!) but my sister-in-law works at a nursing home, with its strict uniform regulations, so I am seriously considering making her some oversleeves like the ones shown here. Her one requirement is that they can be washed at 90°C (“boil-wash”).

Your scrubs are synthetic materials most likely, natural materials breath very well!

Idk polyester kinda sucks

I've changed slowly my wardrobe from polyester to cotton and linen as much as possible, I can say for sure that those I'd rather have like a million layers of that, instead of one layer of polyester on a hot day. It really makes a difference.

Surprisingly when everything you have on is cotton or a natural breathable fiber, you stay pretty cool!

Everyone says natural fibers are remarkably cool, but THAT many layers? I overheat in just a T-shirt in the summer. I don’t care how natural they are if you have five layers on, I feel like that’s going to be hot. I understand the necessity in this case, so you can change out of your apron and sleeves when needed, but otherwise, wowzers. I’ve always wondered if my temperature issues are because of me being a very ridiculously large chested woman for being smaller around the waist and petite. Maybe I conserve heat oddly because of it. I know people who are stouter also have issues with temperature regulation because of the insulation. So I just, I feel bad for the gals like me back then. At least I can look forward to a reduction one day and not being uncomfortable all the time, but back then, shifting from overbust corsets but before there were good reliable bras, ugh, I just... I feel so bad for them! I never want a time machine to strand me there, lol.

Amara - I'm with you there. I overheat way too easily, and the closer to naked I am, the better off usually (I also have giant breasts - probably doesnt help). Everything I've seen has led me to believe that people just didn't overheat as easily back then as we do now. I mean, you think this many layers are bad... Look at how much crap women were stuffing themselves into only 30-50 years prior to WWI, and those layers weren't all light, breathable cotton. Makes sense - humans have been steadily depleting the ozone layer for the last century, and we know it's having a measurable effect at this point. Plus, I know I can't possibly be the only one who's noticed that direct sunlight now feels much, much hotter than it did only 9 or 10 years ago. Ffs, I got a farmer's tan last summer and I STILL have it. I don't mean it went away and came back again this summer - it NEVER went away, and I don't think it's going to. Couple that with the average increase in weight and increasingly common hormonal imbalances, and it's no wonder we have so much trouble staying cool.

Amara Jordan you also have to remember- they were very used to wearing multiple layers. They’ve been doing so since childhood and since AC was a newer invention, these ladies had to deal with the elements around them. AC has definitely messed with our abilities to deal with temperatures. I come from South Carolina，which can get hot in the summer and I used to sweat so badly when outside because I tried to stay inside with ac. However, when I started working in China in a much hotter area and where AC is practically never turned on, it made me much more capable of dealing with SC summers when I come and visit. I essentially don’t even really sweat anymore when I’m in SC.

Surprisingly yes. I went to Colonial Williamsburg many years ago and it was about 80 degrees out the day I was there. My mom bought us a set of colonial women's clothing (shift, wrap-shirt, long heavy cotton skirt, apron, and cap) and it was actually cooler wearing that than it was in shorts and a T shirt! There's a reason Bedouins wear long robes and layers!

They definitely had class back in the day. I think that all went to hell during the cultural revolutions of the 1960s.

@@thathandsomedevil0828 You still can dress elegantly and nicely. It's up to you. I quite like this relaxed era, I myself am not much of a fashion person, I prefer to feel comfortable and not to think much about what to wear in the morning, it's jeans, sweater and ankle boots these days in the autumn.

shinarit *Oi*

Eddie something tells me you like nurses lol

Eddie So much so that they gave it a name - the Florence Nightingale Effect.

Eddie what were they gonna marry then

They were effective enough that if affected Hemingway to write “Farewell to Arms.”

Eddie That is how my great grandpa married my great grandma! (Except in WWII)

Thank you 😊

@Michelle Coppola they did. Pretty sure it was for that very reason.

Split leg makes squat and go very easy!!

DJ pandaz___ They 👏🏼 didn’t 👏🏼wear👏🏼underwear’s 👏🏼 back 👏🏼 then👏🏼

Bella Løve They did, but it was “split”, i.e. it had no crotch seam, just a loose modesty flap that got tucked into the side it wasn’t attached to.

Just hitch up your skirts and take a crap in the toilet.

You got to think of the fact that the VAD nurses are liken to what a CNA does today. CNA training is like five weeks cause it is caring for patients and learning cpr and vitals and personal care. The nurses do the actual medical stuff that required more training cause they need to have knowledge that in on par to what a doctor would know. It is still stressful cause its learning how to properly dress wounds and patient care and knowing how to not cross contaminate or spread infections, stuff like that. And the emotional demands cause it is them who spend the most time with sick, injured and dying patients. They build rapport and relationships cause they do all the care. Nurses usually have as much interaction with a patient as a doctor would.

Cheap Cooking Channel // I've never read up specifically on nurses in war time, but reading soldiers accounts it is clear the nurses saved them from more than just their physical wounds.

Judgey19XX My training periode was 15 days. And I’m a cleaning assistant on a hospital. So It’s not that far off considering that They’d be doing a lot of the same tasks.

Katrine Petersen // I imagine it's a lot of learning on the job but when peoples live are at stake it must be stressful. Especially during WW1 the wounds were horrific.

Judgey19XX Yeah, I’d Imagine so. Sometimes I do see or hear things I’d prefer not to, but not as much, or at the level, as any of these women would do. If anything unpleasant happens, I just have to pull a lewer (calling the nurse) and Then go away. They didn’t really have that option back Then. Since I’m uneducated (working there as a summerjob) I’m not even allowed to do cpr. Actually, I’m not even allowed to give the patient as much as a cup of water, without asking the nurse. The service assistants (an actual education - a cross between a janitor and a cleaning lady - Can do simple/nessecary patient-related tasks like tansporting Them between places, cpr etc.) I just do tasks related to cleaning and serving food. Most of my contact with the patients, is Them asking What’s for dinner as I clean their room.

bag of chips Yeah, that really got to me. My grandmother passed recently and she was an RN, and she took her inspiration from stories about nurses during the Wars. She was not the first in a line of strong women in my family, and there were so many like her, who just wanted to help ease suffering.

Right!

BUT did your great great granny looked hot in her sexy VAD nurse undergarments?

Who were they?

God's Girl Russian Princesses

@Olivia SUN Thanks

I understand but let's assume that revolution is better than monarchy. (Sorry for the english, I am not fluent yet)

*Revolução Russa* I mean, at least in the monarchy they didn’t have those horrible gulags and spies. But yes, the monarchy was still bad like every other absolute monarchy. I honestly don’t think the revolution made anything better and in fact made everything even worse.

Try contacting a British WW1 reenactment group.

There’s also so many premade patterns, such as a McCall’s, that you could purchase for cheap, and with a little practice and research, adjust it to easily fashion your own!

Glenda I still have patterns in attic. My school of RN Nrsing was active during American Civil war now name changed to Southside Regional Medical center. Fabric fo full RNs was pinstripe, white aprons , caps. Watches were pinned to should and upside down to be able read but stay out of way

Wow, thanks for your comment! At least we know now that all the pain and discomfort you experienced in "40" years will never amount to the pain and hard work that nurses during the war experienced.

Well idk about nurses but working class women didn’t wear stockings for everyday wear in the summer

With COVID, I’ve seen lots of nurses with cloth caps that have buttons on the temples to attach the ear loops of a mask (otherwise it irritates the ears). I wonder if they will come back?

Not sure if you could wear one in Australia but in the US I used to see older nurses still wearing white hats with scrubs or some would still have on the old stockings and dress, of course now I think because all the older ladies have retired I don’t see it anymore, it could be new regulation but since all the nurses now seem to be rather young I think my speculation is accurate

Oh god rompers are trash 😂

Ikr

Kyleigh Affatati You might want to add a crotch seam if you want to wear it on its own.

Nobody went "rushing and running" everywhere. Every nurse knew where the medical supplies were kept in the area where she worked, and where other less prevalent supplies were cleaned, wrapped, sterilized and stored, such as surgical instruments, and suture equipment. So there was no need for running about. If the wound was serious enough, then the patient was most likely taken to Surgery or a treatment room for the work to be done. Most bleeding was managed by direct compression, or if on a limb, by application of a tourniquet, while the more permanent plans were made and carried out. It wasn't perfect, to be sure, but medicine, particularly battlefield medicine, had a long way to go yet. As evil and wasteful as war is, they DID learn a great deal from it in the long run, to advance the field of medicine on both the military and civilian sides. Plastic Surgery developed by leaps and bounds due to all the work done in that particular specialty during the "Great War," as it was known before it became the First World War*. Grievous facial wounds were repaired by rather crude techniques at first, but as time went on, very intently scientifically minded surgeons, who specialized in treating such wounds, found ways to repair such damage using finer techniques. (*It took the Second World War, or WWII, to happen before you could actually distinguish the two from each other in that respect!) And, Penicillin received an enormous "trial run" or "field test" during WWII, before it was turned loose on the civilian population after the War, in the mid 40's. It took a lot of time to learn how to produce a synthetic version, which grew it faster and in much larger quantities than it ever had been during the prewar years. And the dosage was refined when longer acting formulations were devised as well.

@@sharid76 you must be fun at parties it was a joke, not a request for a whole essay

okay

@harrylongbaugh1 theres a difference between intelligent and knowing it all, he's a know it all

@@sharid76 😒

Hannah No And the field medics too!

Hello my beautiful friend good morning how are you doing..?

Leanne Marie Same! (:

You a doctor ?? Thank you even though you will probably never help me but you will help someone else

paige mclachlan i thought exactly the same thing!!!

It's ok we will make it through 😘

paige mclachlan me too 😭😭

They're making the movie!! My sister and I just finished a rerun of the whole series! I am a nurse, and just love watching lady Sybil :)

Same here, same here.

Ok, how many scrolled back up & watched that part again?

Yes the women in the VAD had to be independently wealthy or had a family who were wealthy. Most girls from the nobility/aristocratic families were involved. For example Lady Sybil from Downton Abbey Season 2

Nope I think its calming too

1% clothes 99%naked

Its like an outdoor club so idk what u expected

Weird comparison but ok

"Fine I'll get up now" but spends five minutes to think and complain about actually getting up before getting up.

slept through mortars, you get used to it

Lol welcome to Iraq circa 2006

Cheap Cooking Channel I know!! Everyone says natural fibers are soo remarkably cool, but I dunno, FIVE LAYERS of anything will be warm, partially because any fabric WILL trap heat. It just boggles my mind. I get the need, given the situation, but still!

The starched high collar and girdle is what is baffling. Like bathing a human is hard enough but in all those layers and a the girdle. Them ladies were hella tough

I honestly don't think I could do it. I'd hate to have to do transfers in a girdle.

Cheap Cooking Channel Just imagine how hot they would get! Your working in a huge building with about 4 or more layers of clothing, and body heat eveywhere.

I know! Hell no even long sleeves makes me get hot lmfao

Although it has to be acknowledged skirts that long are in no way practical for a hospital setting - especially if you're going up and down stairs all day long.

I'm an RN and had the privilege of working for an older DON within the last 10 years. She was VERY strict about our uniforms and made us to back o whites! I hated the thought and fought it, but slowly realized, y patients LIKED it! And I felt so good inside wearing it, more clean, aesthetic and professional! And now? Its all I wear!!!!

@@taraelmegreen5527 I agree the starchy buttoned pure white uniform and those beautiful caps announcing what hospital you trained in. My mother was a nurse during WW2 . She and all her classmates looked professional. I fear that now nurses, doctors, janitors, the x-ray tech, lab techs, all look the same. Sloppy, wrinkled and unprofessional. I used to espouse the laid back look but now I think the old way was better.

Virginia O'Flaherty my mother was a nurse when they still wore the starched caps and uniforms. Sure, it looks good, but oftentimes doctors and management would prefer you be in uniform than save a patient’s life! She and her coworkers have been in multiple situations where their caps were off and were resuscitating patients when they were yelled at and told to stop what they were doing and put their cap on! The uniforms, while professional-looking, were utterly impractical.

Not only did they know they were dealing with "A nurse," they knew that she was a minimally trained volunteer nurse, not a professional nurse with 3 years of training in a professional nursing school. The differences there would be critical, especially when the Professional Nurse was who you really needed. The VAD nurses performed a very important function during WWI, only they worked in the field too, not just behind the lines. Almost the same as the American Red Cross Volunteer Nurses Aides did during WWII. They wore a special, highly identifiable uniform, complete with cap, and released the professionally trained nurses still in civilian hospitals to do the more highly skilled jobs they had originally been trained to do, and also released them to practice nursing in the military overseas as well. Between the thousands of student nurses in the US Cadet Nurse Corps who were working in hospital wards as a normal part of their training, and the Red Cross Volunteer Nurses Aides who took on a great deal of the less technical care of patients, they both provided as much as 80% of the nursing care provided to patients during the 2nd World War.

Hello my beautiful friend good morning how are you doing....?

To be fair, what they did was fairly basic medicine. It was far more about being comforting and supporting while providing the neccessary services during reconvalesence.

Nurses didn't had the same tasks as doctors. Their task was to take care of those who were already on their beds, administering medications and others simple tasks, such as replancing bandages. Moreover that, those nurses gained experience quickly after taking care of so much ill-omened soldiers who lived the horrors of the Great War.

I never wear tight pants or shorts in part because I must have pockets!