Aprons

Not just an apron for cooking, but a pinny with a bib for me. I couldn’t bear to mess up my clothes.

I just wear old jeans and a T-shirt when I’m cleaning. It doesn’t matter if they get splashed with anything. An apron doesn’t protect your arms, which is where I’d be most likely to get cleaning liquids on them. I’d have to mimic Mrs Overall instead.

I wear an apron for cooking and keep it on until I've eaten! I've ruined enough T shirts with oily stains and/or tomato juice stains!

I'd love to know the best tip for removing oil stains from cotton t shirts ... I've tried everything - Nancy Birtwhistle, Google, what TikTok says ... 🤷‍♀️

I spray Elbow Grease directly onto the stain before I put it in the washing machine Retread. It doesn’t mark the fabric and it gets out the grease completely. A tip I got from Mumsnet years ago.

Thanks! Am ordering Elbow Grease.

123kitty

Not just an apron for cooking, but a pinny with a bib for me. I couldn’t bear to mess up my clothes.

Mine are all pinnies, just like my old Irish granny!

I have to wear a pinny when I am doing messy cooking as I have a tendency to wipe my hands on my clothes. Indispensable when cooking roast dinners too for Christmas lunch it says "More champagne please" just to keep family on their toes.

That's my kind of apron, lilypolen! 😂

I'm not really sure what you mean by pinny. My aprons go over my head, with a bib, then the waist strings wrap around and tie in the front. I remember my Mum had some that were just waist-down, and I always thought they were a bit useless!

I use one in the kitchen most days, and save the older stained ones for bathroom cleaning. I have a men's denim shirt that I use as an overshirt while gardening.

They're all known as pinnies, CanadianGran, either the full 'butcher's apron' style or a frilly pinny round the waist.

To me, ‘pinnies’ or ‘pinafores’ are the full length ones.

‘Aprons’ are the half ones which tie at the waist, no ‘top’ to them.

Aprons especially the plastic one syou could buy in the 80's are great but now have a real image problem.

Some of the older fabric ones look as though they belong to an episode of Dinner Ladies or Hilda Hogden. Bless from Coronation Street.

They need to be rebranded the sold by a cringe worthy massive price by some kind of crap designer label that people with no taste or style adore.

Magenta8

I wear a Hazmat suit.

Ha! Ha!