During the pandemic and even
prior to the pandemic, there's challenges with scrubs.
It would take up to a year and a half sometimes to get scrubs.
REI could do that in about three to five months and custom fit them.
Like in my case, right?
I'm 5'6." My manager 6'2." We have the same size waist.
The pants were about eight inches too long. I'm in healthcare.
I did notice a lot of times scrubs one of the ugliest things that you see
when you walk in the hospital, people are wrinkly, stressed, scrub dangling.
So, you know, these are our health care heroes.
You know, they have some of the worst scrubs five days a week or even longer.
And you know, how can you boost morale during COVID?
Our healthcare heroes deserve better.
When you look good, you feel good.
And when you feel good, you do your best work.
In the middle of COVID, we have been making a ton of masks
and with the mask demand went down,
and we still have all these women with sewing skills...
And it was sort of like, what should we pivot next?
And so it's kind of a natural progression for us to go from masks to scrubs.
These are the high quality 400-thread count and higher.
Almost like you never left your bedroom.
For me, you know, it's almost a dream come true.
Every woman that come through our doors say, "I want to be trained
as potentially a job."
So it's really through the partnership that we can get to that goal.
Without partnership, we can't do it alone.
It's about inclusive and helping everyone.
Any time we can champion something like this,
I think it's something that we should always do.