In the 1950s, nursing in the UK explodes into life as the Health Service gets up and running. A ´Golden Age of Uniforms´ begins. As hospitals became warmer, short sleeves appear and nurses who roll their long sleeves up start wearing arm cuffs or frills to cover up their rolled-up sleeves. Bib-front aprons also replaced the older aprons.

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