Curious why medical patient attire is so unflattering, a reader asks our fashion critic if it’s intentional. By Vanessa Friedman Why are hospital gowns always so awful? Is asking patients to wear ugly ...

While patient hospital gowns serve a number of practical purposes, the psychological effects of donning them may be more harmful than good, a physician argues in an opinion piece in The New York Times ...

In an issue dedicated to the current fixation on improving everything, The New York Times Magazine explores a redesign of the hospital gown. “There was — and is — always room for improvement. The ...