Grandma's Aprons

[historyteach]

I don't think our kids know what an apron is.

The principal use of Grandma's apron was to protect the dress
underneath, 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, 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 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 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

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

REMEMBER: Grandma used to set her 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. :rof

I don't think I ever caught anything from an Apron.

L'Chaim!
(To Life!)

[CAPTAINZING2000]

how bout grandma's love

[historyteach]

Ahhh, Capt,

NOTHING beats that!!!

Shalom!

[indigo]

I still use aprons!

[cmc]

I remember the frilly aprons that my mother and aunts wore when company came over. I still have a few of those stored away and have also collected some beautiful vintage dotted Swiss aprons that I hang up on antique clip hangers to decorate my laundry room. I suppose I like to see them because of the fond memories I have of the ladies who starched and ironed them so carefully and made sure that the bows in the back were just perfect.

I really should wear an apron because I'm a messy cook! But these days I just dab some stain remover over the spot and it's gone.

My Grandma M always wore an apron...the type you see worn by waiters in restaurants, a 'working apron' instead of the pretty ones worn by the women of my mother's time. I remember how she used a washboard instead of their 'new' washing machine.

Clothing styles and their uses tell us alot about the people who wore them in their time.
Thanks for this thread, Teach.