Guinness World Record guidelines specify the nurse must wear a white or blue dress, pinafore apron and white cap. (Pantyhose were optional.)
Jessica Anderson completing the London Marathon on April 28. By Deanna Paul Deanna Paul Reporter covering national and breaking news Email Bio Follow May 5 at 5:38 PM Jessica Anderson trained for the London Marathon with a goal: she wanted to be the fastest female to complete the race dressed as a nurse.
Because Anderson ran wearing medical scrubs, and not a dress, she did not qualify as a record-breaker. “That didn’t feel right to me,” she said. “After that it was too late to resubmit, but I didn’t want to change my outfit anyway.”In a letter viewed by The Post, dated Feb. 19, the nurse called the criteria “outdated and frankly quite sexist.”
The official also drew on other categories as a comparison: “Marathons dressed as a brownie or scout,” which also require “older fashioned costumes” and not the modern clothes worn by the scouting community, and marathons dressed as a chef, requiring “a chef’s hat to be worn and a large pot to be carried whereas a number of chefs do not wear hats at all.”
“I’ve certainly never seen a male nurse wearing a dress to work,” she said in an interview with Runner’s World, adding that most nurses at her hospital wear scrubs, tunics or trousers.
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