Grandma and even Mom wore kitchen aprons some of the time. This accessory is used today to keep your clothes clean of the stains from cooking and cleaning. That's the same reason it was used in the past by the lady of the house, but in days gone by, it was a real necessity.
Women of the middle class did all their own work and in order to keep their clothes clean, they wore their kitchen aprons all day long. Lower class women may have owned only two dresses and keeping one as clean as possible was very important as well as having one as a backup. Women who had servants did not ever wear aprons. They didn't have a need, but the servants wore aprons.
Nothing was ever wasted in the lower and middle class lives of days gone by. Aprons were fashioned from feed sack and didn't have a lot of styling, but were practical. Little pieces of rick rack and buttons and brightly colored fabrics were making a statement in the 1920s and 1930s. The waistless long frocks covered all but a few inches of hemline. The kitchen apron buttoned down the back.
But the fifties showed that the kitchen apron was a real fashion statement. The half apron became a popular style and tied tightly at the waist. Magazines showed the hostess wearing a cute little apron at the dinner parties as did the TV shows of the times. The magazines showed more women wearing aprons than not wearing them. Vintage clothing shops and Ebay display dozens of these aprons of the past.
The 1960s ushered in the slogans written on the full length kitchen apron. "Kiss the Cook" was popular and the funny slogans on aprons made them super as gifts. Dad took the kitchen apron out into the backyard to the BBQ pit where he was "King" at the grill.
Before the doctors' white coats they were wearing aprons. Nuns' habits were, and in some cases still are, protected by aprons. Nurses wore aprons as well as hospital technicians who did certain lab work. Children use their dad's old shirts are aprons for finger painting and other art projects. Carpenters were aprons to hold tools and some short aprons to hold the tools are referred to as tool belts, but kitchen aprons are here to stay and are used once again in the modern kitchen as well as the professional kitchen.
You may have made aprons in the past. Patterns are still available, but your first project at home was a simple cutout and a chance to use your mom's sewing machine. Vintage patterns are available. Do they still teach sewing in home economics? Learning to make a kitchen apron is a simple project that can incorporate a few sewing techniques for the beginner.
Practical, nostalgic, cute and fun, the kitchen apron will never go out of style, regardless of which style you choose. White tops are saved from spaghetti sauce when you keep the kitchen apron covering your decent clothes. Laundry day is less challenging when you don't have to get food stains from grease splatter out of your blouse. The kitchen apron is here and probably always will be!
Women of the middle class did all their own work and in order to keep their clothes clean, they wore their kitchen aprons all day long. Lower class women may have owned only two dresses and keeping one as clean as possible was very important as well as having one as a backup. Women who had servants did not ever wear aprons. They didn't have a need, but the servants wore aprons.
Nothing was ever wasted in the lower and middle class lives of days gone by. Aprons were fashioned from feed sack and didn't have a lot of styling, but were practical. Little pieces of rick rack and buttons and brightly colored fabrics were making a statement in the 1920s and 1930s. The waistless long frocks covered all but a few inches of hemline. The kitchen apron buttoned down the back.
But the fifties showed that the kitchen apron was a real fashion statement. The half apron became a popular style and tied tightly at the waist. Magazines showed the hostess wearing a cute little apron at the dinner parties as did the TV shows of the times. The magazines showed more women wearing aprons than not wearing them. Vintage clothing shops and Ebay display dozens of these aprons of the past.
The 1960s ushered in the slogans written on the full length kitchen apron. "Kiss the Cook" was popular and the funny slogans on aprons made them super as gifts. Dad took the kitchen apron out into the backyard to the BBQ pit where he was "King" at the grill.
Before the doctors' white coats they were wearing aprons. Nuns' habits were, and in some cases still are, protected by aprons. Nurses wore aprons as well as hospital technicians who did certain lab work. Children use their dad's old shirts are aprons for finger painting and other art projects. Carpenters were aprons to hold tools and some short aprons to hold the tools are referred to as tool belts, but kitchen aprons are here to stay and are used once again in the modern kitchen as well as the professional kitchen.
You may have made aprons in the past. Patterns are still available, but your first project at home was a simple cutout and a chance to use your mom's sewing machine. Vintage patterns are available. Do they still teach sewing in home economics? Learning to make a kitchen apron is a simple project that can incorporate a few sewing techniques for the beginner.
Practical, nostalgic, cute and fun, the kitchen apron will never go out of style, regardless of which style you choose. White tops are saved from spaghetti sauce when you keep the kitchen apron covering your decent clothes. Laundry day is less challenging when you don't have to get food stains from grease splatter out of your blouse. The kitchen apron is here and probably always will be!
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