A Whimsical Look at – The History of the ‘APRON’:
REMEMBER making an apron in Home Economics?
REMEMBER your Grandma's aprons?
How many kids today have any idea of the fascinating History of the Apron?
- Aprons were used to protect the dress underneath. It was easier to wash aprons than dresses and they used less material.
- The apron served as a potholder for removing hot pans from the stove and oven.
- It was wonderful for drying tears, and on occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears.
- Image by gem66 via Flickr
From the chicken coop, the apron was used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven.
When company came, those aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids.
And when the weather was cold, grandma wrapped it around her arms.
- Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow bent over the hot wood stove.
- Chips and kindling wood were carried into kitchens in those aprons.
- From the garden they carried all sorts of vegetables.
- After the peas had been shelled they carried out the hulls.
- The apron was used to bring in apples and other fruit that had fallen from the trees.
When unexpected company drove up the road, it was surprising how much furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of seconds.
When dinner was ready, Grandma walked out onto the porch, waved her apron, and the men knew it was time to come in from the fields to dinner.
- Image by George Eastman House via Flickr
It will be a long time before someone invents something that will replace that ' old-time apron' that served so many purposes.
Compare Today With Grandma's Apron Days:
Then: Grandma would set her hot baked apple pies on the window sill to cool.
Today: Her granddaughters set theirs on the window sill to thaw.
and.....
Today: They would go crazy trying to figure out how many germs were on that apron.
I don't think I ever caught anything from an apron....did you??
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Just had to say great post! Enjoyed reading it. I don’t comment much, but just had to say, “this is a great site”. Very informative. Thanks for the insight!
Thank you Gianna
Yes thank you.
It’s nice that they were able to invent the APRON, at least we don’t have to be messy and end up looking like crap every time we finish cooking or baking.
True – I must admit though, I have a knack of getting myself covered in whatever it is I am cooking.
Another amusing and thought provoking post. I still use an Apron when I am cooking and my far better half likes to wear an old paint covered butchers apron for gardening. The pouch at the front is ideal for those little gardening tools.
I’m often surprised to see various well known and popular TV chefs busy in their kitchens while not wearing aprons. Not glamorous enough I suppose.
Well hello again Phil, nice to have you back visiting us again and it seems enjoying another of my posts. I love this type of memory lane provocation. I vividly remember both my mother and grandmother with some pretty glamorous frilly, pretty aprons.
I too have one (and only one), far from glamorous and perhaps not too unlike the one your better half has, a great old navy blue butchers apron that my hubby also uses when he is at the BBQ.