How is Nurse Ratched indirectly characterized by her costume? How do the setting and hospital staff also indirectly characterize her?

In "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", Nurse Ratched is a nurse in the mental hospital who exercises a position of direction of the same, by means of extremely rigid and authoritarian forms and attitudes. In this sense, her clothing and her appearance reaffirm her authority and rigidity, since she is an extremely formal and neat person, with an impeccable uniform, thus giving an image of extreme formality and coldness. At the same time, the deferential and submissive attitude of the hospital employees emphasizes the power of Nurse Ratched.

in our power to make a world happy - to teach mankind the art of being so - to a character hitherto unknown - and to have, as it were, a new creation intrusted to our hands, are honors that command reflection, and can neither be too highly estimated,