The founder wanted to have the sisters of this new type of religious congregation of women, that tended to the sick and poor, and were not required to remain in their cloister, resemble ordinary middle-class women as much as possible in their clothing, including the wearing of the cornette.
The founder sought to make the sisters of this novel kind of female religious order, devoted to nursing the ill and destitute, and not bound by a cloister, appear as much like typical middle-class women as feasible in terms of clothing, including donning the cornette.