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Why are the clothes in hospitals and prisons striped?
Why are hospital patients, prisoners and mental patients' hospital gowns all striped instead of solid colors or other patterns? Some people think that horizontal stripes are dynamic and vertical stripes are quiet. Therefore, the vertical stripe hospital gown is considered to be helpful to stabilize patients and facilitate treatment and rehabilitation. Moreover, blue and white alternate with each other, symbolizing the blue sky and white clouds, which can make people feel quiet, so the hospital gowns are mostly blue vertical stripes. Is that really the case? What is the origin of stripe patterns?

? The first person who publicly banned stripe patterns was Boniface VIII. 1295, he banned any believer from wearing striped clothing. Stripes are considered blasphemous clothes and are usually associated with villains such as clowns, witches, Judas and executioners. Medieval writers even regarded zebra, a striped animal, as "Satan's beast". So people in that era deliberately avoided wearing striped clothes.

? "People in the Middle Ages hated the surface structure, and stripes just didn't have a sense of hierarchy and disturbed the line of sight." In addition to disturbing the line of sight, stripes are particularly conspicuous and easy to attract attention, so it is more appropriate for prisoners to wear striped uniforms for the convenience of supervision and management; In addition, stripes are a symbol of individuality and self-pursuit, and the most taboo of dark religious autocracy in the Middle Ages is that people publicize their individuality, so religious rule has played a role in fueling the flames and piled up the negative significance of striped clothing.

? There are also colors, which are divided into cold and warm, and of course they also correspond to dynamic and static. In view of the above two rules, blue vertical stripes are often used in hospital gowns. It mainly plays a role in stabilizing and calming emotions. So as to reduce the patient's irritability factors and be beneficial to the recovery of the disease.