Whoever first invented the hospital gown should be shot. It just might be one of the most famous and poorly designed garments of all time, causing many an embarrassing moment and fueling more than a few jokes. It’s terrible that we hear so much about the privacy of medical charts and health information but then as patients we’re forced to traipse around flashing our privates to whoever might be unlucky enough to be standing behind us. Why couldn’t they at least have put the ties on the side? Well maybe they will now, because (get ready to say goodbye) the hospital gown is finally getting a long over-due redesign.
The mission of coming up with a more modest gown that still serves the necessary “easy access” purpose for hospitals and clinics has been given to Teri Lamar, a textile design professor at North Carolina State. She’s been working on it since 2006 and recently announced that she hopes to have it finished sometime in the next 2 years.
So does anybody know if hospitals all buy the same style gown because they want to or because it’s regulated somehow that they have to? Just wondering if once a new design comes out all the hospitals will switch over immediately or if we’ll have to wait a decade or two for the new style to catch on.
it’s taking a designer over 4 years to complete a redesign? damn, not everything has to be brain surgery