I don't. I saw one that I really liked, though, and I'm sick of getting stuff splatted on my clothes. Although I haven't seen it at the store in a while.
I'd be kind of weirded out with the whole "right wing, fright wing" thing, but I don't think it has to be like that.
My son's friend's mother inherited about a dozen aprons. Her favorite one has those pompoms dangly from it. It's really strange. But she really likes it.
My other son's friend's most elegant mom has one in her pantry. I've never seen her wear it.
Anthropologie sells them.
Would I be driving my husband to 1950's housewife flashbacks, complete with cold sweats and shudders, or would I be doing a good thing?
For that matter, how do they fit? I'd hate that strangled feeling, like from lab aprons.
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Get a restaurant apron. Very utilitarian looking, and keeps you clean, without looking like a 1950's flashback.
Oh, want to see a 1950's flashback? This is me, after deciding I should have an apron, and requesting one in a swap. Holy moly. I look like the couch barfed. (not a very flattering pic, I just needed to show I received)
I still don't use an apron. (though, when I was a cook, I liked the restaurant style ones...don't feel like a hausfaru in them, lol)
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Yep. I've been into aprons since I was a teen and started wearing my mom and grandma's old half aprons when I did the dishes. Now I have an awesome bib apron a good friend made for me, and it's my favorite for when I am really cooking up a storm, and I have a basic twill apron for just doing the dishes or heavier cleaning. Oh yeah, I have one in the trailer too. My dad bought it for DH but I wear it.
I had one I loved, vintage, but the fabric split so I need to trace it and make another one, which would require learning how to sew more than a straight line.
I still have one my mom made at an apron party (can you believe it ~ an apron party?), and I have a vintage yellow half apron that I bought to match my kitchen (it's not practical though). Then I have a more 50's style bib apron I bought (new from kitchsy fabric) but I feel totally silly wearing it.
So yes, I wear an apron, and for practical reasons. I think that's why the kitchsy one just doesn't do it for me. I even have a clothespin apron, and in a pinch at someone else's house I'll tuck a kitchen towel into my waistband because I hate to not have an apron on when I am cooking or doing dishes.
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I wear a bib apron for cooking and cleaning if I didn't my clothes would be ruined. I found my aprons at Shopping at Rolling Pin Kitchen Emporium. Dh actually likes me in an apron, but he is probably having those 1950's flashbacks
I saw some really cute vintage inspired ones at a pricey kitchen store this week. I ALMOST got one. It was very 50s. I love 50s aprons. I think you have to understand the difference between wearing one because you are expected to versus wanting to! They are super cute, I would be afraid of getting stuff on the apron!! LOL
I have a Williams-Sonoma apron I wear daily. I am a mess in the kitchen, and if I don't wear it, my clothes WILL be stained!! I would really like to get a cutsy one though, the WS is pretty utilitarian. I don't think it gives me a 50's housewife vibe at all, for that I would need ot have my hair done and heels on too-which isn't happening!
If I am wearing white or a light color and food will be splashing I wear one.
I have 2 both were made for in from swaps. My favorite is a Betty Boop one with 2 front pockets w rick rack trim. I love it!
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I love aprons! '50's flashback or not, they are awesome to keep your clothes clean, dry your hands, keep tissues for wiping runny noses, keep your phone in, etc, etc, etc....
I wear a denim pampered chef one most days but I love to collect vintage and elegant ones. I also love the plain white restaurant ones.
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Right wing, fright wing- Phyllis Schafly look alikes- the ugly fifties' housewife with the scary shellacked hair and the pinched face, and the really squinty cats eye glasses. Whenever the media tries to show the ugliness of the conservative/ nativist/ old- school type, they tend to show pictures from my hometown, Dallas, or thereabouts. So, right wing/fright wing.
Although the strangest hair style, ever, is from that genre. The woman had iron grey hair, (since hair color is for loose women and tramps (this gives you a flavor of the thought process, too)) The front part had its short, permed bangs, ratted high up. In the back, the hair was twisted up, and pinned, like usual, but the pinning!!!! She had, I'm serious, the hair twisted into coils, and the coils were pinned to her head- again standard, mind you, but in the pattern of stems, and flowers. Three stems growing from the base of her neck, and three coil roses, atop these.
I kind of have to be careful about this, since I am well aware that my instincts aren't towards the fashionable, tasteful and good. I really have to pay attention. And, apparently, the kids don't have particularly good style instincts either. The boys voted I should get a pair of capirs that literally make my stomach hurt every time I see them. They are bright pink, khaki and black, in a lurid floral print. Literally painful to look at. The boys love them, and wonder why I don't wear them.
And, things have to last about ten years, since the budget is touchy. So I can't really go chasing after the "this summer's hottest." Also, things don't disappear, either. So there's this really wretched hoodie teeshirt that is over ten years old. It was celery green ( $4 at purchase) and it faded over the years to a sort of not clean white- ish. Dispiriting to wear, esp since I don't like hoodies in the first place.
So, I have to do a lot of research. I have to do more research, too, on housewife things. It's been all of a month since I've sort of declared "SAHM" my job, and I am having nightmares. Forget that I haven't worked in a year, or been to school in a while longer, but I thought it was sort of an interlude, so I wasn't particularly doing a good job at it. So now I'm having to look at things, like napkins, and aprons, and menus, and things like that. Literally, horrible despairing nightmares.
(though, when I was a cook, I liked the restaurant style ones...don't feel like a hausfaru in them, lol)
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