I'm surprised at how many people don't often/ever wear an apron in the kitchen! I know I am living in the wrong era (I'm an echo of the 1950's) but I really think a set of aprons would serve anyone well. I wear one at least twice a day. I started to wear one regularly soon after my first child was born and I realised that tiredness was making me clumsy and prone to getting stains down my front... meaning even more washing and time wasted changing before i could leave the house. So I started wearing them... and then i started making them (using my original apron as a template... sooooo easy!) and then my MIL passed away (she was in her 70's) and her whole collection of aprons dating back to the 1950's i think came into my possession! HERE is one of them. It's just a waist worn number. Most of my others go up higher to cover the front of my top. I'll upload a piccy when the gallery is working again.
So... tell me about your apron wearing/non-wearing habits!
I have a couple of aprons that I wear, one's a lovely country road one my mum was given but doesn't wear, and a bundy rum one that I got womewhere along the line. I like them for baking when I'm working with flour or roasts etc .. I don't really see the point of the waist aprons to be honest, as the benches are all above my waist!
Aprons are nice when wearing a jumper though, as I don't like getting my lovely wool jumpers dirty!
Yes, it's a shame it's just a waist one (the one in that piccy) the colours are lovely... so 1950's... and it goes with all the tea-towels my MIL passed on to me too. Sometimes it's great to have a relative who hoards things! Her kitchen was like a time capsule!
I despreately want one - DH says I need to start cooking first! But I've been doing so much cooking since I was made redundant - he said the other day he doesn't want me to go back to work coz I'm so domestic now!
I have heaps of aprons. My fave is my Martha stewart full length apron. I actually want a new apron for my birthday, its on my wish list anyway, a Jesse Steele Apron.
A non wearing here. But I'm being converted. I might even get adventous and try to make some. I'm learning how to sew too. Becoming a real little Martha Stewart here, LOL!! I've never even thought of wearing an apron and I'm definitely one who should because I make a terrible mess even making cereal, LOL!! I'm even going to make some for DD as she is very into copying everything DH and I do at the moment. Plus she'll look so cute in one, LOL!!
Off to spotlight this morning I think.
DP asked for an apron for his bday, so I got him one!
But I went for store-bought (DJs had them on special for $20) - adjustable strap at the top and nice and long. I think it looks great on him. He does most of the cooking at our house.
For those who don't like the strap around the neck make the neck straps extra long, cross them over (place holes, like buttonholes, at the waist) and thread straps through these then ties at the back of your waist.
Hope this makes sense.
This way it stops the pulling at the neck.
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He does most of the cooking at our house.
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