Aprons

I have a black and white striped cook’s apron that I wear when preparing meals, and an Eden Project apron that GS gave me as a present years ago, for baking.

SueDonim

I ought to wear an apron but rarely do as I forget. I have one made from adire fabric with a traditional Nigerian folk saying printed on it ^No food for lazy man^

SueDonim what a wonderful quote! I must trot that out sometime!

I don’t wear aprons but my husband always does! 😀

I used to wear a pinny years ago, but don’t bother now.

I have a tabard that I wear for cooking. It doesn’t twist sideways like aprons do on me and has two huge pockets.

I roll my sleeves up too. I really don’t understand the tv cooks with long sleeves; Prue Leith usually has 3/4 length.

I have a different tabard for cleaning.

Paperbackwriter

Just out of curiosity, what on earth are some of you doing with all that bleach your aprons are protecting you from????!

It's in all the floor cleaning fluids particularly toilet cleaner. It's very easy to splash it accidentally then the colour is stripped from the bit that you've splashed.

Just clothes, but I have "around the house clothes" so I usually change even if I just pop to the local shop, unless I can throw my coat over them.

I wear old scruffy and stained clothes when doing things at home and in the garden so I don't need to worry what happens to them. If someone comes to the door they just have to accept the way I am! I always change when expecting people or going out of the house. I use a pvc apron to stop my clothes getting wet when washing up. If I wear decent clothes at home they always get ruined!!

An apron in the kitchen and when eating or doing housework (not that I do much!)

funny have not had an apron for years but they are so useful. Perhaps I should invest in one!
Mum used to have a button up overall with sleeves not sure what you call them, her first was a pink check left from when she was a dinner lady, then she had a nice brown checked one.

Always wear an apron while cooking, which I do a lot. I'm forever wiping my messy hands on it. They get disgusting, are regularly hot washed and are still disgusting and badly stained. That's what they 're for..

Just out of curiosity, what on earth are some of you doing with all that bleach your aprons are protecting you from????!

I have a GBBO that says 'what prue says'. I love it.

Very glad to read above that I'm by no means the only messy eater!

Labradora

I don't own an apron but have to be fully bibbed and tissued up when I eat otherwise I get stains all down my clothes.
I am actually seriously thinking of buying one of those all over housecoats to prevent bleach splashing on clothes when I'm doing the housework.
I always hated them because my maternal grandma wore one and she was a really old lady.............
Xcept I'm an older lady now also .
How did this happen?🤣🤣🤣

We often go out to a local Italian restaurant and the owner there always gives me a large white napkin to tuck in at my neck to catch the gravy, my grandchildren say I always get something down my front at every meal!

I wear an apron when I'm wearing my dresses. Not only for the obvious reason of protection from cooking stains, but as protection from the cat and his claws. 🤣

I do have an apron, but only wear it for Christmas Dinner cooking and when cooking for guests. The rest of the time I happily splatter myself and then wash my clothes.

I only wear an apron if I am doing a really dirty job.

This is a reaction to being forced to wear an apron at all times when at home as a child.

No Scottish child I ever met did this after age two, or thereabouts, but my mother not being Scottish insisted on the custom she had grown up with. I, naturally, hated it.

So, no aprons for me, unless I am cooking Christmas dinner in my best clothes, or cleaning brass or some such task.

No, I don’t wear one.

I don't own an apron but have to be fully bibbed and tissued up when I eat otherwise I get stains all down my clothes.
I am actually seriously thinking of buying one of those all over housecoats to prevent bleach splashing on clothes when I'm doing the housework.
I always hated them because my maternal grandma wore one and she was a really old lady.............
Xcept I'm an older lady now also .
How did this happen?🤣🤣🤣

I wear an apron as soon as I am in the kitchen as I am very messy when cooking, (and eating,) It is a rather chic one though from Le Creuset.

Housecoat

An apron, entirely necessary when I've got "best" clothes on and guests are arriving. Otherwise it's my usual clothes.
Maybe, if I remember, for making pastry.

I have at least half a dozen aprons, I'm so clumsy due to my R.A. I would be changing my clothes every five minutes. I used to bring them back from holidays abroad.
My two little granddaughters have one too, because they want to look like gran!

My friend worked in a nursery, which was having a charity tea party. No-one owned an apron and and I was able to provide some frilly ones, owned by my late mother! My friend said she knew I wouldn't let them down. She calls me, The apron queen.

My next door neighbour, who also happensto be my son's MIL, also wears one.

I wear an apron for baking and cooking roast dinners but otherwise just normal clothes. For cleaning etc I wear old tee shirts and shorts or jeans.