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Hrm, my problem would be a lady wouldn't wear what I wear because a lady wouldn't be doing what I do most of the time. I mean maybe I'm wrong, but I find it hard to imagine the more feminine ladies I know getting up to their hips in a river chasing snails for the lab, or being in the Chemistry lab. I'm training to be a physician and in pre-med that means doing some pretty nasty and dirty things that are plain simpler in pants.

I have one friend who wears skirts and that caused us no end of grief when she was trying to do things in our mixed gendered health class.

Do any of your girls in the hard sciences, where a skirt might be a bit of an issue? How do they get along in classes were they deal with dangerous chemicals? (my lab teacher thinks that skirts are more likely to allow a chemical burn then pants.)

Hrm, my problem would be a lady wouldn't wear what I wear because a lady wouldn't be doing what I do most of the time. I mean maybe I'm wrong, but I find it hard to imagine the more feminine ladies I know getting up to their hips in a river chasing snails for the lab, or being in the Chemistry lab. I'm training to be a physician and in pre-med that means doing some pretty nasty and dirty things that are plain simpler in pants.

I have one friend who wears skirts and that caused us no end of grief when she was trying to do things in our mixed gendered health class.

Do any of your girls in the hard sciences, where a skirt might be a bit of an issue? How do they get along in classes were they deal with dangerous chemicals? (my lab teacher thinks that skirts are more likely to allow a chemical burn then pants.)

I used to be a CNA, and I wore pants with a long shirt, but that was before I really realized how important skirts were, and if I had to go back and do it again, I would find or have made some white skirts for me.

To put this in perspective, look at the nuns who used to be in the hospitals doing nurse work in their habits years ago.

Here is a picture of a nurse dressed modestly:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pingnews/434451938/

Here's a more modern nurse also dressed modestly:

http://www.bsip.com/en/zoompopup-image-1942405-panier-0-etat_l-0-logutil_hd--pays_aff-USA.html

Here's a group of ladies dressed modestly, with two nurses flanking.

http://www.provena.org/StJoes/images/125/2013%20old%20hosp%201924%20student%20nurses%20w%20sisters.jpg

Here are two nurses in training, dressed modestly:

http://imagecache.allposters.com/images/pic/LIFPOD/887546~Paula-and-Susan-Fox-Sisters-Who-Are-Student-Nurses-at-Wesley-Memorial-Hospital-Posters.jpg

I believe these are Salvation Army nurses, but they're dressed modestly as well:

http://www.miscuse.dk/womeninuniform/nurse/nurse74b.jpg

Most of the dresses/skirts that were worn by working women back in those days, had skirts that came past their knees, and were sort of slimline skirts, not form fitting, but straight, and not frilly or wide.

Here's what a lot of nurses in the UK wear:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.miscuse.dk/womeninuniform/nurse/nurse74b.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.miscuse.dk/womeninuniform/nurse/nurses.htm&usg=__RJ44UE1T0azIUV8imNJz9c9Q6cc=&h=324&w=379&sz=20&hl=en&start=16&um=1&tbnid=M4CorLJQtQqddM:&tbnh=105&tbnw=123&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpictures%2Bof%2Bsisters%2Bnurses%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DX%26um%3D1

That's a very good illustration.

Seems in Asia they always wear skirts too, and if I recall, they have a lot of people working in labs and dangerous areas.

http://comps.fotosearch.com/comp/UNM/UNM153/portrait-two-nurses_~u25023541.jpg

I thought this was cute. Two Canadian nurses.  :smile:

http://pw20c.mcmaster.ca/files/pw20c_images/00001532.jpg

I just had to post this one. Here's a nurse working in a pediatric ward.

http://www.trinitashospital.org/images/photo_history7b.jpg

Here's a huge group of graduates from a nursing class. There are 80 here, all dressed modestly.

http://www.deedy.com/blog/uploaded_images/1919_Jane_Austin_Sullivan_Nurse-747041.jpg