Why is a barber pole red and white? A study says that the red and white stripes are symbolic of bandages; white to represent the clean, and red to represent the blood-soaked. However, many believe the other theory, that goes further back to medieval times, that the red and white stripes represent the bandages used during bloodletting. During those times, you wouldn't just go to your barber for a hair cut and a shave, but they would also perform tooth extractions, surgeries and bloodletting. Bloodletting was a historically practiced medical procedure which involved removing a set amount of blood from the veins of a patient for therapeutic purposes. It is still retained, in an abstract sense, in the form of phlebotomy, the drawing of blood for the purposes of analysis. Now you know!
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