What is the origin of the term "candy strippers"?

Actually, the term is Candy STRIPERS (not Strippers)

See this entry from Wikipedia link

There were some porn movies that used the term “strippers” – but those came later.

It came from the red-and-white striped aprons that they wore.

Yeah the volunteers had the red and white striped dresses. Like a candy cane.

I work in a hospital and they do not use that term any longer. They call them volunteers.

Hmm thanks. Somehow not curious about the later “candy strippers” @elbanditoroso…. Although my imagination paints candy strippers as dancing singing americans with big incle sam smiles making and twirling red and white taffy poles or that hard candy stuff that stretches and hardens as it ia shaped. All done in perfect sychroncity of course.

And the link was informative. Would have been much cooler if they were munchkins or at least brought candy on their rounds.

Volunteers doesn’t have the color candy stripers does. We are being blanded out of existence @chyna

Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 11th ed. says: “candy striper n [fr. the striped uniform worn suggesting the stripes on some sticks of candy] (1963) : a teenage volunteer worker at a hospital”

My sister did a stint as a candy striper in her teen years because she was interested in nursing as a career.

However, eventually she quit and decided that nursing was not for her. She said that after daily witnessing the disrespect with which the majority of Drs. treated the nurses, she decided it was not the place for her :)