Aprons

 

one of my childhood aprons

"Do you remember the history of Aprons?

I don't think most kids today know what an apron is. The principle use of Mom's or Grandma's apron was to protect the dress underneath because she only had a few. It was also because it was easier to wash aprons than dresses and aprons used less material. But along with that, it served as a potholder for removing hot pans from the oven, it was wonderful for drying children's tears, and on occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears.

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, she 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 brought into the kitchen in that apron. 

From the garden it carried all sorts of vegetables . After the peas had been shelled it carried out the hulls. In the Fall, the apron was used to bring in apples that had fallen from 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, she walked out onto the porch, waved her apron, and the men-folk knew it was time to come in from the fields to dinner.

It will be a long time before someone invents something that will replace that "old time apron" that served so many purposes. 

REMEMBER, Moms and Grandmas used to set hot baked apple pies on the window sill to cool. Her granddaughters set theirs on the window sill to thaw. 

They would go crazy now trying to figure out how many germs were on that apron!

I don't think I ever caught anything from an apron......but LOVE! "

......from Do You Remember instagram

these are an assortment of my Mom's childhood aprons and mine. Most of these are from the 1940s, they are treasures to me.

This is the apron our daughter made me while she was in High School. It's embroidered "MOM", and I wear it every Thanksgiving.

There is an article about aprons in the November issue of Country Living magazine.

Country Living magazine

Country Living magazine

a friend sent me this adorable egg apron last year--it has little pockets to put eggs in! Fairy Granddaughter likes to put this on when she is going to get the eggs.

Do you use aprons?

Do you have any memories of aprons?