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No one in my family has ever wore aprons....can't sat we are perfectly neat...but never a real issue....and yes, we've always cooked from scratch.
Honestly. ..it's not the 50s...we don't wear pearls for dinner and get the 'man of the house' his slippers either. Aprons out side of an industrial kitchen is a tad anachronistic if not pretentious.
can't rep you again so soon; you bring up good points, we dress differently and we are living in a different era.
I like the idea of an apron, but the reality! Since I wear pants, a long apron scuttles between my legs. I am a messy cook, and the bib type would be perfect....but I'm busty, and the fabric crawls and then the strap pulls at my neck so it's not comfy.... so I find them to be nightmares.
And reason a lot of chefs on tv don't wear aprons is they are wearing chef's jackets. I don't wear a chef's jacket, but I do wear "home clothes", clothes that can get stained or dirty, because they are already. (I even have a hair dye tee shirt) I tuck a fresh generous tea towel into my waistband at my hip for handwiping.
I make a lot of home made meals and messy meals. My hubby is the one that does laundry in our house ( we divide household chores and he insist on this one) and for a while I would wear cooking t shirts but even these got worn out, so he is very happy that I now use aprons that cover my shirt front.
My aprons are usually black, heavy duty and I customize them to end about short length. They also have pockets that I have disposable tasting spoons in them. I do have a frilly pretty one that I purchased at Ikea but that one I use for baking one the rare occasion that I do bake since my clothes would be full of flour and this helps.
I also use my black aprons when I break down my meats like a whole sirloin or round ( meat markets have very good sales if you buy them whole) I never buy ground beef, since I prefer to grind my own and know what is in my meat and not the pink slime that is sold as ground beef.
I love aprons. I don't think they look ridiculous at all...some of them are really pretty, and I especially love the vintage ones. So many of them are homemade, and I like imagining the woman who made and wore it before me. I love spending time in the kitchen - it feels peaceful and nurturing. I probably could have been happy had I been an adult in the June Cleaver era.
Putting on a apron somehow makes me feel more feminine and pretty. It also keeps my clothes from getting stained or dirty while cooking. Grabbing a towel or wiping my hands on the back of my pants while cooking just doesn't have the same appeal.
I've always had the more generic ones like you see at Jimmy John's or other fast food places. But Mom gave me a box of stuff from aunt's and now I have the cutest vintage aprons. Including one that is obviously meant to wear as you're doing last minute stuff before a cocktail party - it's organza. I think they were called hostess aprons?
I keep my aprons on a conveniently located hook just off the kitchen - they come in awfully handy when carving a turkey (and are dressed for Thanksgiving dinner!), canning tomatoes, baking cookies or pies, or performing other messy tasks. Sometimes I wish I had one of those big aprons with sleeves I remember my grandmother wearing when she baked.
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Originally Posted by ScarletG
Honestly. ..it's not the 50s...we don't wear pearls for dinner and get the 'man of the house' his slippers either. Aprons out side of an industrial kitchen is a tad anachronistic if not pretentious.
You ought to try pearls at dinner sometime; seems like it would do a world of good.
As for aprons being anachronistic -- I guess cooking is anachronistic, too?
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Originally Posted by jay5835
But aprons are not a June Cleaver affectation. That's one of the silliest assertions I've ever heard.
Exactly.
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Originally Posted by MurphyPl1
Including one that is obviously meant to wear as you're doing last minute stuff before a cocktail party - it's organza. I think they were called hostess aprons?
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