Not All Heroes Wear Capes But,

[mucifer]

This one does:

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[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

1. She emanates gravitas.

Qpublican/fascist minfolk everywhere is skeered and fearin'.

[Wawannabe]

2. I posted a fashion OP for 2021 fashion trends earlier this week

Capes are IN!

She does rock that cape!

[mucifer]

3. I'm a nurse and I wouldn't want the old fashioned cap and white stockings

But, I would love to have the black cape.

[judesedit]

12. My mom was a nurse for 50+ years, during WWII and on. She always wore a white dress uniform, white

stockings, white shoes, and her white cap with black stripe in later years. She would scrub her hat and starch it and stick it to the side of the refrigerator to dry flat so she could shape and pin it together. She always looked so professional, neat, clean, and it was so easy to recognize a nurse when you needed to. Not to mention more becoming. We were proud. She looked kind of like an angel in a sense. And was an angel to many thousands over her working years. She was 76 when she finally retired. A navy blue wool cape was part of her uniform when in the Army Corp of Nurses and it looked so nice. Nowadays you can't tell the aides from the nurses from the surgeons. I know it's more comfortable, easier, probably cheaper than the other way, but I really miss going in a hospital and seeing the nurses in white uniforms and knowing they were the ones who would care for you. Just seeing and knowing that alone made you feel better.

[Wawannabe]

18. My maternal grandmother was a nurse

Same uniform. Barely remember seeing her in it.
She didn’t have a lick of training in nursing however!
I was born in the hospital where she worked.
She was retired by the time I was 10.

[Irish_Dem]

27. My aunt was a nurse in the hospital where I was born and she worked in the nursery.

I was born two months premature so was place into an incubator.
Even though I only weighed two lbs, I was a hell raiser and kicked out the sides of the incubator.

So I got kicked out of the nursery and my aunt and mother took me home.
(My dad was away in the military stationed in Korea and we were staying with my grandparents).
My grandfather and uncle made me a little incubator at home.

True story.

[Irish_Dem]

23. My mother was a nurse as well, with the same uniform you describe.

And she was also an Air Force nurse with a blue cape.
It was all so wonderful looking yes. Very neat and clean.

My daughter is a Nurse Practitioner now in a pediatric hospital.
She wears scrubs with Disney type characters printed on them, etc.
What a change. My mother would be shocked to see her granddaughter.

Ha maybe my daughter should start wearing a cape, the sick kids would love it.

[judesedit]

26. Lol. I'm sure they would

[VA_Jill]

19. Me either.

I wore white for the first 5 years of my career. Do you know how stupid it is to wear white in ICU, where you're dealing with all kinds of noxious stuff like charcoal, and blood and bodily fluids, half the time without a gown? We used to joke that our scrubs should be rust and black plaid. And brown shoes.

[judesedit]

20. With scrubs you don't take the same precautions. My mom wore a white lab coat while working in ER

just for that reason. You took it off and changed it so you didn't spread germs or shock other patients or anyone else when it was soiled. The uniform below the coat rarely showed evidence of the gruesome, at times, situations she was dealing with.

[VA_Jill]

22. But that

would still have got all the nasties on it. White shows EVERYTHING! Which was our point. When we agitated for scrubs we petitioned for navy blue. We got teal. Almost as bad as white, but not quite.

[judesedit]

25. I do understand what you're saying and yes, it got all kinds of stuff on it.

You have more than one for that reason. And the good thing about white is it can be bleached and is good as new when done. Plus it's disinfected. However, I truly do
understand the preference for scrubs. I'm pretty sure I would prefer them, too. By the way, thank you for doing what you do for people. My mom would be exhausted at the end of her shift.

[Harker]

15. Blue is in, too! n/t

[Celerity]

4. it is not a cape

http://bglfashion.com/en/products/5702-pl_71361726/

straight dress with decorative, structural elements along the shoulder line and sleeves

[TNNurse]

5. Let them call it a cape, it is harmless to be wrong.

The idea of a cape is encouraging.

[VA_Jill]

17. Yes!

The effect is that she swooped in, cape and all, to save America. And she doesn't even get a vote, in the end.

STATEHOOD FOR THE VI!

[chia]

7. At the collarbone and shoulders, the cape effect is there. Perhaps it has the psychological effect

of feeling like she's wearing one, strong and invincible. I like that idea, anyway

[judesedit]

13. Still, it put you in mind of one from the front.

[ashredux]

6. She was very good... the Dems have a strong bench

[sheilahi]

8. Yeah, but.......

Yeah, but "not all heros wear blue dresses with strange twisty wraparound cutout sleeves that are attached to the shoulders" doesn't have the same impact.

[justhanginon]

10. That's funny!

[justhanginon]

11. That's funny!

[llmart]

9. I don't care what she wears...

She'll always be a hero to me. She made a name for herself yesterday and will be rising star in our party.

[bottomofthehill]

14. Ms Plaskett was amazing, and was able to convey what we were all feeling

Both through her raw emotion and professional demeanor. I am thankful for her.

[karin_sj]

16. She is fantastic!

[Larissa]

21. Congresswoman Plaskett's 9/11 Tribute

Congresswoman Plaskett revealed that she gives thanks every day-- for 20 years -- to those who perished on United Flight 93 on September 11th, the plane targeted for the U.S. Capitol. The captive passengers on that flight decided to stage a revolt against the hijackers. They knowingly took action in order to save folks in the Capitol Building that day, who unaware that they were targets.

And 20 years later, we find the U.S. Capitol Building, the heart of our democracy, under attack once more.


http://www.legacy.com/sept11/SearchResult.aspx?location=UA93&psl=1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_93

[csziggy]

24. I loved how pround Rep. Raskin was when he introduced her

She had been one of his students so he has a lot to be proud of!