Do you wear a pinny?

Yes, even in the garden. I made a gardeners apron using heavy gauge calico with a large pocket - looks like a kangaroo pouch actually. Always wear one when baking and cooking - particularly when batch cooking bolognese sauce.

No never, I don’t own one.

Never wear one. Had to make a pinafore in a dressmaking class at school in the 1950s. I completely botched it, got zero marks, vowed never to look at a pinny ever again. My mother and grandmother spent a lot of their time swathed in big wrap-around pinnies. They looked like sacks of potatoes. But in those days before washing machines it was important to protect clothes while doing household chores.

Only when cooking. I wouldn't for household chores.

As with others, always when cooking because I can make a mess to Olympic standards. Didn't last week for some reason and now have to bin a very nice hoodie as it has the most enormous grease stain down the front where I was wrestling with a roast chicken (it won!).

always worn an apron or pinny when cooking housework or gardening. All handmade. Many years ago when we had jumble sales I would buy cotton skirts or dresses to make aprons. Now because I am old and shaky I wear an apron when having a meal.

Since severely fracturing my right shoulder in three places and damaging the soft tissue in a freak accident, I ended up with a reverse replacement shoulder. This means I cannot do up ties etc behind my back. Enter the Japanese apron which you put your arms and head through. It covers the front and the sides and for a messy cook and craftsperson is just ideal. Front opening bras are a lifesaver too.

Always when cooking/washing up - have a great collection of aprons! Otherwise would have to be changing clothes every 5 mins as always to get something splashed on me, usually tomato/tumeric based which doesn't come out in the wash

And it's normally when I'm eating that I ruin my clothes, probably better off with a bib!

I only wear one for Christmas cooking too! My DIL gave me a lovely Liberty pinny and I'd wear it when she comes too, though we normally go out for a family meal rather than me cooking.

Thankfully I was wearing my pinny this afternoon when I dropped a huge dish of lamb biryani down my front while I was taking it off the hob. I only wish it was a maxi pinny then I wouldn't have turmeric down my jeans and rice in my slippers 😢

Funny that this should come up as we went to a friends for lunch yesterday and she was wearing one. I said to DH this morning that I should start wearing one as I’m always ruining clothes when I’m cooking.

I wear an apron when opening tins of fish when I have my best clothes on.

My latest pinny was a bargain from Tesco just before the pandemic, heavy twill for the bargain price of £1.50 reduced from £15.

LottieinSuffolk

My pinny is a part of my daily outfit. It spends more time on than off. I have requested DH to bury me in my pinny and bicycle clips!

The bicycle clips make my mind boggle. What are you expecting to run up there? My DH used to tuck his trousers into his socks when we had a rat, bicycle clips would have been handier.

My daughter made me a Christmas apron. It has a large Christmas tree on it with small decorations at the end of each branch.

Yes, yes, yes! Both DH and I wear aprons. We have a large (shared) collection; most have pockets. I can't imagine us doing any cooking or cleaning effectively, without an apron. (But I have to change into my gardening clothes, if using bleach!)

I sometimes wear an apron when cooking/baking, but I also have of those wrap-around overall? types, which was originally my granny's although never worn. Think Hilda Ogden - she probably wore one. When this comes out it is a sign that serious cleaning is about to happen!

I do at work but not at home

My pinny is a part of my daily outfit. It spends more time on than off. I have requested DH to bury me in my pinny and bicycle clips!

'I always wore a PVC one until Dh pointed out my slippers that were wet'

😅 I bought a PVC one for Mr A for when he cooked dinner. I once saw him spill some oil, which he wiped up from the table, but when he turned around later he had a stream of oil running down the front of his pinny and onto his shoes.

I have red quilted one, which I noticed has a slight burn mark down the top. I can only assume that I leaned too far over the gas hob at some point, so I am very glad I was wearing it - could have been very painful.

yes when I am messy cook like me I need a pinny or I would be washing my clothes every day!

Only when cooking Christmas dinner. I once bought myself a nice Christmassy one with a robin on, and left it at dd’s house nearly 3 years ago - Gdc3 was arriving any day so I was cooking - and I’ve still not remembered to retrieve it.

I really ought to wear one for cleaning (when I do any, that is) - I’m still furious with myself for splashing bleach on a newish linen SeaSalt tunic. £69 or so down the drain. 🤬

pinny not penny

I wear a pinny for cooking it is blue and white material, until recently I always wore a PVC one until Dh pointed out my slippers that were wet and covered in flour. For 40 years I had not realised water runs down PVC.Silly me.
My grans wore enveloping pennies that covered all their clothes and for really dirty work had something called a coarse brat which was like a sack hung from the waist. Why brat I haven't a clue.