Many medical and nursing scrubs companies have added a new line of scrubs to their collection - men's scrubs. Nursing scrubs manufacturers worldwide have received requests from medical personnel around the globe to help men look better at work.

Because medical uniform retailers should always take into consideration the requests that come in from hospital staff, nurses, doctors, dentists, veterinarians, and anyone in the medical field who is required to wear nursing scrubs and/or medical scrub hats, many small companies have begun manufacturing their own medical scrubs. For example, looking at current fashion outside of medicine, a small Austin-based company decided upon a slightly flare-legged, slimming scrub bottom that sat lower on the hips, similar to 7 for All Mankind low rise jeans.

Taking into consideration that rarely do women wear jeans with just one pocket in the back, the scrubs company placed two stitched pockets on the backside and fitted scrubs women , which immediately created a leaner look than other scrubs. And, rather than the unflattering elastic waist-band, they added a coordinating ribbon that ties at the waist. Designing the nursing scrub top was simple - a tapered shirt for women always looks better than a boxy shirt, and with one stitched pocket on the upper left-hand side of their flattering scrub top, they released their first line of medical scrubs, now known as Original scrubs. The first color, ceil blue, was so popular that navy, black, and grey were quickly added. While watching many scrubs companies add new colors almost quarterly, men have realized that they were being neglected in medical fashion.

The design process for the fitted scrubs women and medical scrubs

But finally, the men's scrubs bottoms now feature a low rise pant and also are made with the same soft, wrinkle-resistant fabric that is also used for the women's designer nursing scrubs. With one pocket in the back and a classic white tie in the front, the scrub pants are bound to turn heads. Men may not care for stitching and a tapered top, so the pocket on the top left-hand side of the shirt is sans stitching and the scrub top is not tapered. Even without the stitching, these medical scrubs are still more fashionable than the hospital scrubs that are currently available through other companies.

Real hospital life is dirty, fluid ridden, and life threatening. In real hospitals, doctors must make quick decisions with the hope of saving lives. When making these decisions, doctors often are forced to move quickly from one surgery tool to the next and from one patient to the other. In the early years of medicine, such movement from one issue to the next helped to spread disease and infection from one patient to the next, often making a trip to the hospital more dangerous than helpful. Today, the medical profession has learned from its mistakes. Advances in research, methodologies and technology have increased the professional knowledge regarding the spread of infection, as well as methods to prevent recontamination and infecting patients with illness they did not enter the hospital with. Medical scrub uniforms are an example of one medical advance that helps to decrease the spread of infection due to a lack of sanitation.

Prior to the creation of different types and styles of medical scrubs, such as Landau medical scrubs, doctors wore their street clothes when examining and operating on patients. A doctor wearing clothes stained with blood and other bodily fluids was believed to have a prosperous business. Some doctors began wearing butcher's aprons to protect their street clothing. Soon, however, the stark contrast between the crisp, bleach white apron and the accumulation of blood and guts from surgical procedures became too disturbing for many people to look at. Eventually, the medical scrub was born and used by surgeons during surgery. Surgeon scrubs were the typical green color thought of when someone mentions scrubs. Now scrubs are worn by almost all hospital employees, as well as employees working in medical offices outside of hospital grounds. The creation of the medical scrub uniform has helped to decrease infection and maintain clean hospital environments.

After finally releasing scrubs for men, many nursing scrubs manufacturers found that their fashionable men's scrubs were out of stock almost immediately. The once small hospital uniform company wasn't sure how the line would do once it was made available through the website. However, they began receiving both compliments and requests. Many men have expressed interest in having the custom-stitched pockets, so this is something that may be offered in the future, along with expanding the currently available colors. Grey is the most popular color for men's scrubs. The design teams are always working hard, trying to keep up with the demand. Rumor has it that the next product release from small specialty scrubs companies will be a special line of nursing scrubs made specifically from the requests of nurses who love the designer scrubs, but also need strategically-placed pockets at the bottom of the scrub top.