Jones says part of their uniform is to wear a cape that’s black on one side and red on the other, much like those worn by nurses who tended to soldiers in the 1800s.

The first major change Blankenship remembers was the switch to uniform pants, though they were still white, she said. By the late 1980s and into the early 1990s, nurses started wearing scrubs.

Photos of nurses uniforms from the 1880s show the structured white dresses they wore. Since then, uniforms have come a long way to accommodate function and comfort, giving way to loose-fitting scrubs.

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