After the Crimean War the Nightingale Training School was set up at St. Thomas' Hospital, which also imposed a strict uniform on its nurses. Probationers were required to wear a short, square-looking cap that Miss Nightingale almost certainly helped to design. Florence never worked as a nurse at the hospital. Popular images of Miss Nightingale suggest that she always wore a head covering (Figures 2-4), but not a nurse's cap. (Rebecca Lodge, personal communication, March 20, 2011)
Figure 2. Florence Nightingale wearing her customary cap. Library of Congress.