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The White Coat Effect

Colorful Lab Coat Embroidery

What a wonderful time to be alive. All it takes is a Google search to find a plethora of lab coats, scrubs, and stethoscopes in all shapes, sizes, materials, and colors. Well, technically a lab coat is meant to be white to represent cleanliness and purity, but there’s nothing stopping you from making your next lab coat purchase stand out with some custom embroidery in any color of your choice!

Medelita’s lab coats and scrubs (and now scrub jackets!) can be purchased with custom name and title embroidery, which their team of embroidery artists will complete in-house for a small fee of $12. They have 18 options of embroidery thread in every color family, from blossom and bougainvillea, to teal and slate blue, to willow and seafoam.

Lab Coat Embroidery Colors

Embroidery Colors

Scrubs and scrub jackets can be embroidered too, but your color choices will be more limited to make sure the embroidery will stand out. Slate blue is one of the most popular colors for lab coat embroidery, but it would be next to impossible to see slate blue embroidery on baltic scrubs or a navy scrub jacket.

Now that Medelita has launched their new line of stethoscopes, we love the idea of getting your lab coat embroidery in a matching color as the tubing of your new stethoscope, or perhaps in complementary colors. The ERKA stethoscopes available on their website come in three different models, all comparable to Littmann models, that each available in up to 13 different tubing colors. The ERKA stethoscopes also have a solid warranty, and even come with their own stethoscope carrying case so that you don’t have to purchase that accessory separately.

What color embroidery would you choose for your lab coat? Would you ever match your stethoscope to your embroidery colors? Let us know in the comments below!

The White Coat Effect

Where To Get Your Embroidered Lab Coat And Scrubs

It’s a waste of time and money to buy a lab coat or set of scrubs at one place, and then have to search around for a nice shop that will embroider them for you. Want your logo to be embroidered as well? That’s going to take even longer, and most embroidery facilities may not be able to reproduce your logo as well as you would like.

If you’re looking for new lab coats or scrubs and you know you’re going to want embroidery, you should buy your garments from a place that does their own embroidery in house as well. Medelita is a brand that does their ordering, fulfillment, and embroidery all under the same roof. This is not only a time and money saver for you, it also means that your lab coat will be embroidered with the same quality of the clothes that are being embroidered.

Lab Coat Embroidery Colors

Embroidery Colors

Medelita offers both name and title embroidery, as well as custom logo embroidery. If you do choose to get your logo embroidered, it will take a little longer because the brand’s embroidery artists will send you a sample of your embroidered logo for you to approve, and they’ll work with you to make adjustments until you are satisfied with it.

Check out their featured weekly logos to see some examples of fine embroidered logos.

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As for regular name and title embroidery, you can choose from almost 20 different colors and 3 different font styles. The majority of Medelita’s orders are actually requested with embroidery, so they really know what they’re doing when it comes to personalized embroidery for your lab coat and scrubs.

Custom Embroidery

3 Ways To Personalize Your Medical Uniform

  1. Custom embroidery
    Whether intended as a gift for someone else, or an investment for your own professional appearance, it makes sense to invest a little in your new white lab coat in order to ensure that you don’t blend into the background in a sea of white coats. Personalized embroidery can be as simple as your name and title, or as distinctive as a custom digitized and embroidered logo that truly makes you stand out.
  2. Lab coat styling
    The style of your lab coat also is a way to declare your personal style. In the past, there haven’t been many options of lab coat styles – they were pretty standard, unisex, shapeless white coats. Today, there are many more options of lab coats so that you can choose a style that speaks to you, or that is flattering to your body type. The possibilities are endless!
  3. Accessories
    This will depend on your specialty and the rules of where you work, but accessorizing is a great way to jazz up an otherwise boring medical ensemble. Express yourself with a classic or kooky watch, experiment with funky cufflinks, and try out different types of earrings to see what best frames your face. You can also add some individuality with hair accessories, such as headbands and barrettes.

You tell us: what’s your favorite way to individualize your lab coat style?

Tajima Embroidery Machines

Tajima Embroidery Machines For Quality Customization

For your logo to become a work of embroidered art, it must first be digitized. This is the process of converting a regular computer image into a file format that can be read by the embroidery machine – one of the most popular brands known for producing top-notch embroidery equipment is Tajima, a company located in Japan.

The Tajima Group developed their first multi-head embroidery machine in 1964, and since then they have become an industry leader for producing quality, artisan-level embroidery machines. According to the Tajima website, their company mission is “to to use [their] inventiveness to attain [their] unattained goals and to keep providing world-class products along with world class service.”

Tajima embroidery machines are relatively portable and lightweight. In particular, their single head models have become Tajima’s legacy because they are capable of producing the most beautiful embroidery designs. The smaller size makes it ideal for smaller companies looking to expand their embroidery business at a scalable level.

 

Pretty In Pink: Lab Coat Embroidery Colors

Though many medical professionals shy away from pink-toned embroidery, a subtle shade of blossom or berry pink can make a beautiful statement on a lab coat.

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Light pink toned embroidery threads look best in a script style font, as you can see above. However, if you opt for a darker shade of pink like bougainvillea, custom embroidery takes a professional look in a serif font as well.

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And who said that pink is only for women?! This color can be a very bold statement for a man, especially the darker tones of pink that resemble a shade of deep pink-red wine.

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Choosing A Lab Coat Embroidery Font

The best accessory to wear with your medical uniform is custom embroidery, which you can get sewn onto your lab coat or scrubs. This proud display of your name, title, and logo is a great way to distinguish yourself to your patients and colleagues.

Choose an embroidery font that is going to stand out from your garment and be easy to read for your patients: for example, if you are a pediatrician you might want to avoid a script font that older children will not be able to make out.

However, the font of your embroidered name and title is a matter of personal preference. While block fonts are crisp and professional, the script fonts are also very flattering and give a specialized look to your work wardrobe.

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