Tru-Colour Skin Tone Bandages
- 2021
Four packages of Tru-Colour® Skin Tone Bandages, each containing bandages of a different color variety including olive, brown, dark brown, and beige. Each package contains 15 large and 15 medium-sized bandages. Tru-Colour Products LLC started in 2014 with co-founders Toby Meisenheimer, Ryan Tolbert, and Mason Duling with the mission to bring diversity in healing to the healthcare market by offering bandages in a variety of skin tone shades.
Historically, name-brand bandages and other first aid equipment claimed as "flesh-colored" existed solely in soft pink or light tan tones. The use of white skin as the default basis for "flesh-color" excludes consumers of color. Companies including Soul Aid (1970s), Ebon-Aide (1990s) and more recently, Browndages and Tru-Colour®, developed bandages to represent people of color and fill this gap in the market.
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Science History Institute. Tru-Colour Skin Tone Bandages. Photograph, 2022. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/z96g3ad.
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