--- description: TO relieve the sterile monotony of nurses' uniforms, Fashion Designer Pierre Cardin recently unveiled three new creations at a London showing. Two of his designs—nunlike wimples with white... title: Medicine: Sexy in Surgery image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # Medicine: Sexy in Surgery by [TIME](/author/time/) Nov 16, 1970 5:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Nov 16, 1970 5:00 AM CUT TO relieve the sterile monotony of nurses’ uniforms, Fashion Designer Pierre Cardin recently unveiled three new creations at a London showing. Two of his designs—nunlike wimples with white maxidresses —were harmless affairs that might make ward nurses look functional if not fashionable. But the third—a pastel green body stocking with a white miniskirt—was obviously designed only for the most nubile nurses, and brought howls of amused indignation from hospital personnel. “The patients will probably collapse at the sight of a big nurse going wobble, wobble down the wards in one of those,” said Patricia Ward of the United Nurses Association. Nor is the new uniform likely to advance the cause of medical progress. Cardin’s smashing stocking was intended for wear in the one place where distraction can be deadly —the operating room. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6838312/medicine-sexy-in-surgery/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6838312/medicine-sexy-in-surgery/"},"headline":"Medicine: Sexy in Surgery","datePublished":"1970-11-16T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-13T09:30:36.036Z","description":"TO relieve the sterile monotony of nurses' uniforms, Fashion Designer Pierre Cardin recently unveiled three new creations at a London showing. Two of his designs—nunlike wimples with white...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6838312/medicine-sexy-in-surgery/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6838312/medicine-sexy-in-surgery/","name":"Medicine: Sexy in Surgery"}}]}] ```