stackyFACTSThe crisp, heavily starched, almost completely decorative white hats that dominated clinical wards for decades have a deeply religious origin. They were directly adapted from the heavy veils worn by early monastic caretakers, slowly shrinking over the centuries until they became tiny, entirely useless fabric crowns.
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