Comments on: Fat scrubs, anyone?

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 02:40:50 +0000

http://www.acumedsupplies.com Try their Landau Scrubs, they run up to 5X and their prices are the best I have seen.

By: Chele

Chele — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:08:18 +0000

I myself also work in the veterinary field and I am plus sized… moreso thicker bottom half. I wear Landau unisex scrubpants with drawstring, I do have to fold the waist down once but with the drawstring you can tie them nice and tight and they do cover the derriere when bending over to pick up a dog, stretching to reach into a cabinet, etc…. I normally order my pants through LydiasUniforms.com because they usually have amazing deals on the pants and the best color choices, and the pants last a long time… I still have pants in my clothing routine from 2 years ago that chub rub hasn’t ruined yet. I do have to have them altered because they are about 5 inches too long. Now for my scrub tops… I only wear animal print (dogs, cats, dogs & cats etc) so the best places I have found for those are:
http://www.marcusuniforms.com sizes goto 5x and great prices!! (They have alot of H.Q. brand scrub shirts and these run definately true to size)

http://www.apparel-that-works.com is another affordable website with sizes upto 3x

http://www.veterinaryapparel.com tops are a bit pricey and you pay additional for plus sizes, and I have been disappointed with a few tops that I have gotten from them BUT OVERALL I have been happy with most tops I’ve received.

http://www.uniformadvantage.com I have found their scrubs run larger than size (which is nice)

http://www.uniformcity.com their scrub tops also seem to run a bit larger than size

Can you order pants online that fit you and have whatever company does the logo do the logo on the pants for you?

Good luck, I hear what your saying sista!

By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:40:59 +0000

I found some plus size scrubs up to 5x here as well. Looks like they carry Brand names. Maybe they have what you are looking for?

http://www.medicalscrubsmall.com

By: Hannah

Hannah — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:06:46 +0000

I love Iguanamed scrubs. They go to a 3X and they have spandex!!! Which helps with the boob problem for me. Then you don’t have to buy the next size up because of boobs, which is my biggest part. And when I tried on the traditional landau, dickies, etc. scrubs I always had to go to the next size, and it looked like a tent. They are soft of the shelf and come in nice colors and are cut well. The “unisex” works fine for me (the pants are bootcut) and the women’s styles don’t scream cutesy. They are just cut different and come in more colors and have cooler pockets. You have to go try them on. And when the skinny girls at the store look confused when you ask if they have bigger sizes, make sure to look in the unisex, by color area if they are out of the women’s styles.
I found this because I’m looking for a how-to for tailoring scrubs. I am getting a job at a hospital where you can only wear urbane or one of the other brands I mentioned as traditional. I would have to wear steel gray. and they make the steel gray in the most horrible looks like a barn cuts. And urbane is made with junior’s sizing. Since when did people that need juniors sizing work in hospitals?
And the low rise in back problem. All men have flat butts, from sitting on them all day. : )

By: Liza

Liza — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:05:49 +0000

The Scrubs that makes up your knowledge base also dominates mine. And now I’m singing “everything comes down to poo,” thanks. :)

By: RedSonja

RedSonja — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:16:15 +0000

@JPlum,

Honestly, this is a new development for me. In the past, I’ve bought my own scrubs and not had this problem at all. But this particulary brand, for whatever reason, looks like goddamn maternity pants. (I only got them because that’s what the company ordered…) I spend all goddamn day hiking up my fucking pants in the back, and it’s irritating.

sorry for the swearing, but today was particularly bad. Perhaps if I just tried diet and exercise, my pants would fit well like everyone else’s?

By: JPlum

JPlum — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:58:27 +0000

Why do unisex scrubs have such a high rise in front? To make room for men’s giant penises? The giant penis fills it up, pulling the waist down to waist level?

By: Aviva

Aviva — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:44:07 +0000

My mom works in Scrubs and says that White Swan (http://www.whiteswanuniformsofnc.com), Cherokee (http://www.cherokeeuniforms.com/), and Natural Uniforms (http://www.medweardirect.com/thestore/NU.html), work well for her and fit her shape. I work in yoga pants, so I’m useless. Good luck!

By: Stef

Stef — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:19:53 +0000

http://www.sassyscrubs.com/ has up to 6x but I don’t know how they are cut.

By: kateharding

kateharding — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:15:01 +0000

RedSonja, if you can find even a reasonably competent tailor (like, dry cleaner is fine), you can probably have some made for cheap. I recently took a Jane BonBon dress, which I FUCKING ADORE, but which was not cheap, to my tailor for alterations. She looked at it — all cotton, pretty simple — and said “How much did you pay for this?” I told her, she rolled her eyes and said, “I can make you the same thing for [a small fraction of that].” Now, I love the dress and love supporting an indie fat girl designer, so it was worth it, but yeah… having stuff made is not necessarily that expensive. And I imagine scrubs are a piece of cake.