White fabric one-piece double breasted princess style nurse's uniform consists of short sleeves with french cuffs; right sleeve has a red fabric cross stitched on; open to the waist; cross over front closure with metal snaps at top and bottom and requires five button closure and five decorative but…
White fabric one-piece double breasted princess style nurse's uniform consists of short sleeves with french cuffs; right sleeve has a red fabric cross stitched on; open to the waist; cross over front closure with metal snaps at top and bottom and requires five button closure and five decorative buttons on opposite side; two slant inset pockets at hips; two piece back belt requires button closure; back sleeve gusset; buttons required are shank and cotter pin style; requried to complete the uniform are a pair of red fabric inserts into the sleeve cuffs, a pair of white button style cufflinks and twelve white shank button with cotter pin closure.
Printed on fabric label: "Lac-Mac // Size 12"; woven into fabric label: "FORTREL and cotton"; Handwritten inside: "53"
Permanent Location
Storage Room 0010
0010-CLOSET
Temporary Location
Exhibit: "For Service to Humanity: Nursing Education at Kingston General Hospital" Nov 13, 2008.
Length
90.5 cm
Width
85.0 cm
Depth
0.5 cm
Unit Of Measure
centimeters
Dimension Notes
Length 90.5 cm x Width 85.0 cm x Depth 0.5 cm
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Person
Websites
Reference Comments
Christine Brown
Canadian Museum of History, "Symbol of a Profession: One Hundred Years of Nurses' Caps," https://www.historymuseum.ca/cmc/exhibitions/hist/infirm/inint01e.html
"For Service to Humanity: Nursing Education at Kingston General Hospital," Museum of Health Care. https://www.museumofhealthcare.ca/explore/exhibitions/forservicetohumanity.html
Research Facts
Donor wore this student nurse's uniform during nurse's training at Kingston General Hospital School of Nursing, Class of 1971. Throughout the twentieth century, nurses' uniforms changed, in particular with the rising of hemlines. The nurse's uniform was generally white, and Kingston General Hospital uniforms were once known for "turkey red" hemlines. Different levels of nursing education had different uniforms, in particular different caps, as graduate nurses had black bands on their caps to indicate their level of education.