Why are lab coats white? There are probably reasons for the choice (lack?) of colour: maybe it’s to see when they’re dirty, or maybe they just look sterile. But lab coats don’t need to be boring white to function. A few weeks ago, Richard Grant (previously featured on easternblot with piles of copper wire) posted some pictures of a lab coat his wife made entirely from scratch for one of their fellow lab mates:
(Somehow I think a blue cap flask pattern would have made better camouflage…)
They’re taking orders, if you’re patient and need a prettier lab coat than the one you have now.
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And while we’re on the topic of Richard: he is currently participating in Movember, which is an international fundraising event in which men spend the month of November growing a mustache for charity. Richard is in the process of looking ridiculous (by way of looking like Chuck Norris) for charities involved in depression treatment and prostrate cancer research. You should donate!
Thanks for the shout-out, Eva!
I said I’d blog about the lab coats! =) It’s been on my “to blog” list for a month… (but there are other things on there that have been there for a year or so)
Our lab coats get bleached. It’s quite good actually, they go away horrible and come back looking like new. But it does mean prettiness isn’t really an option.
But then I don’t have to pay for the white one whereas I’d have to pay for pretty, so white is alright by me.
I like the creativity in the design. We have some great looking anti-microbial black lab coats if you are looking for style, but can’t sew yourself.
Nice lab coat..its like a desert meta lab coatsand a scientist working in the underground chem lab..haha
I’m a trivia nut, and a well known radio doc confessed that nobody REALLY knows why lab coats are white, but the ‘bleached’ answer seems most plausible – plus the doc ‘looks’ clean. After all, if it’s a long coat you can’t see whhat he’s wearing (or not) underneath…