One summer day in a cotton field one cotton bud says to another…”what kind of thread do you want to be …I mean …material…or type of clothing…what I mean is what do you want to be when you grow up? …”me”…said the other…” I’d like to be a hippy”…”what do you mean?”…”I mean, I’d like to be a pair of jeans…or a blouse with fringe…travel the world…write songs”…
”No” said the first bud
“I’d like to be a doctor”
…”a doctor´s coat.”

A doctors coat also has a purpose…in the hospital, in the hallways, it changes…changes professions…GP, paediatrician, gynaecologist, ophthalmologist, surgeon…changing glasses doesn’t require the same movements that setting a broken leg does…or chasing children down the corridor.

Think about it…a hospital coat …
it´s like a cross between a tuxedo and a gabardine trench coat …long, svelte, a bit serious as it cuts across the neck before beginnings its graceful fall…it´s elegant, classy. Like a suit coat the coat always looks best when left hanging open a bit. You enter the office, see the coat, the doctor and you’re reassured, the coat is familiar, authoritative.

In the operating room … they’re like a track suit. You need to be able to run and jump, not with your legs…but with your arms, yes! You should be able to move freely, unhindered.

Imagine the consequence of merely grazing the elbow of a surgeon…while he is making an incision with the scalpel…and suddenly…a gentle touch on the elbow…the artery…who was it? “me?”…”not me!”…what a disaster. One continuous slow progressive movement and suddenly an unfaithful pleat, or a badly cut sleeve that catches… was it the scrubs…it was just a small tap on the elbow.

You see the coats and scrubs
from far away and you know who’s who… the doctor, nurse, paramedic, surgeon…in the ICU you always look at the scrubs …they tell you who the doctor is.

In the hospital it makes it easy to tell …the people in pyjamas and robes with the backs open are the patients... those dressed, with jackets, flowers and other gifts are the visitors…and the ones in the coats…the doctors coats…those are the ones you want to talk to…once a couple I know visited a sick friend wearing white trench coats…at visiting hours there are no doctors anywhere…for obvious reasons…everyone wanted to speak to them! they couldn’t get out of the hospital.

Attention!

You don’t see just any old uniform… you see the doctor…sometimes you are mistaken at first glance…there are uniforms and coats of all types…nurse, dentist, pharmacist…beautician, lab workers…some are chemists others are doctors…but to do there work correctly they all need special preparation.

The coat needs to consider different aspects, comfort, mobility, heat, breathability, hygiene, all the fibres have to work together to ensure the needed result.

That’s why Pastelli dedicates so much attention to the search for new materials and the development of their fabrics as well as to the improvement of the performance and comfort and the design of the actual lines of professional medical garments.


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Coats that make the doctor