Talk:White coat

Question

What is something like this http://cache.io9.com/assets/images/io9/2008/07/transmatterproblem_01.jpg http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2008-07/41005732.jpg called? Is it a white coat or a smock or what? 84.168.110.218 (talk) 16:13, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

That is a Howie style lab coat (which sidebuttons and chinese collar). --Squidonius (talk) 09:46, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Who the hell is howie? Litch (talk) 04:58, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

History

When and how were lab coats invented and become popular? -- Beland (talk) 05:09, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

'Countries like....'

What does 'countries like Argentina, Uruguay, Spain and Bolivia' actually mean? In what respect are the other unmentioned countries (assuming they even exist) 'like' these four? Is it that they're all Spanish-speaking? Or is this simply sloppy English for 'countries including....' - or even just for 'Argentina, Uruguay, Spain and Bolivia' (in which case 'countries like' is superfluous)?213.127.210.95 (talk) 20:22, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

Likely the latter. Feel free to change it. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 20:44, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

Requested move 29 April 2016

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: No consensus to move. Some good arguments are made on both sides, but there isn't really a consensus either way.  — Amakuru (talk) 09:02, 10 May 2016 (UTC)

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White coat → Laboratory coat – This current title is slang, and most importantly it is country-specific slang. It's also very much a non-descriptive title. That is to say, unless one already knows the slang term, the title gives no clue as to the topic of the article. So per WP:COMMONALITY and WP:PRECISION, the more formal and universally recognizable title should be used. oknazevad (talk) 11:38, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

• Support – "white coat" is very esoteric, and I'm not even sure it covers all the possible iterations that "lab. coat" would... --IJBall (contribs • talk) 16:31, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
• Weak Support - white coat does suggest clothes worn by doctors who don't work in a lab, so this does have some justification. But still, I think lab coat is the more general and better-understood term. Blythwood (talk) 17:33, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
• Strong oppose - currently the article title is general enough to encompass both doctor's coats and lab-coats. Moving this to another title would inevitably require splitting the article - with the result of two stubs on very similar topics. Carl Fredik 💌 📧 10:57, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
  • Physicians coats are lab coats. They may wear them outside the lab, bit they're still lab coats in every other dialect. Also, this doesn't address the non-descriptive nature of the current title. oknazevad (talk) 13:54, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Also, there are plenty of lab coats that aren't "white coats" (I'm thinking of the blue fire resistant ones). I think the current title is not helpful for people finding what they are looking for. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 20:20, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

• Most of the article's sources use "white coat". —  AjaxSmack  06:10, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

Might be "selection bias". While by no means exhaustive, I just did a quick look around, and you can also certainly find articles that use "laboratory coat" rather than "white coat". --IJBall (contribs • talk) 06:41, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

• Support. Despite that it's commonly called a "white coat", it's not the only coat in existence that just happens to be white. JIP | Talk 20:48, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
• oppose per Carl Fredik rationale--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 09:19, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
• oppose because splitting such a brief article into two even smaller ones doesn't seem helpful. https://books.google.com/ngrams/ would suggest that "white coat" is more significant and encompasses 'lab coat' to a great extent. Richardjames444 (talk) 12:57, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
• What about white butcher's coats, and the like? Certainly, these types of white coats are not used only in labs... RGloucester — ☎ 13:23, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
• Oppose Doctors were white coats which are not refered to as lab coats. So keeping it at white coat is best IMO. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 15:10, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

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"White coater" redirects here, but...

...there is no discussion of white-coaters in the article. It's a slang term for pornographic films that were ostensibly educational. Equinox ◑ 18:51, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

Butcher's Coat

Very similar to the labcoat is the food hygiene coat, often referred to as the butcher's coat (generally used without a possessive apostrophe in the US). The chief difference is that the former is usually fastened with buttons, and the latter with press studs (snap fasteners). The butcher's coat has, for obvious reasons, been used by football firms.

Nuttyskin (talk) 01:44, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

Confusing claim about "the nations of the commonwealth"

The article claims that "In 1991, the nations of the commonwealth banned white coats in their countries." It then claims that the NHS in the UK--a member of the Commonwealth--started banning white coats in 2007, suggesting that if a Commonwealth ban ever did exist, it was not universally implemented. To the best of my knowledge, Canada did not ban white coats in 1991 either. The source cited for the claim seems to be the website of a French university student association. If such a ban were ever passed, a better source could probably be found. CreditsideBard (talk) 21:09, 1 July 2022 (UTC)