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From: Brenisback
Date: 10-05-2006, 04:40 AM (1 of 20)
 I remember my Grandma wearing one of these aprons...just warmed my heart to see this...had to share it...Enjoy.Aprons -- with music- just a look back ----- I remember aprons .... Do you? Aprons 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. Send this to those who would know, and love the story about Grandma's aprons. Brenda
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From: Mom of Six
Date: 10-05-2006, 06:22 AM (2 of 20)
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I where one everyday at work. I have all my Grandma's old ones & the ones she made us out of my uncle's pajama shirts.
Barb
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From: stephi
Date: 10-05-2006, 11:50 AM (3 of 20)
I wear one when I am doing a whole day of cooking and chocolate making. Its the best papertowel replacement you can find!!
Stephi
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From: HeyJudee
Date: 10-05-2006, 12:39 PM (4 of 20)
I actually bought on with the bib on the front and wear it when I come home at night and start making supper without changing. I really like the one I bought - plaid with a front pocket in the centre and the best thing of all, velcro to attach the strap around the neck  instead of just having a loop! I can adjust it!!! The ones with loops are always too long and the front hangs down and covers nothing.
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From: Chrysantha
Date: 10-05-2006, 04:47 PM (5 of 20)
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Yep...I remember...frilly or not..and full front or not. My mother and grandmother also had these plastic hoops that went in a pocket in the top and you didn't have to have ties.. I kinda miss aprons...I used to wear'em at work (in bakeries you have to). I don't own any...(I don't cook much either...  )
Chrys
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From: GreenDragonLady
Date: 10-05-2006, 06:43 PM (6 of 20)
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I almost always wear an apron when I cook (which isn't that often anymore...hubby cooks). I like wiping my hands on my "clothes"!
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From: pretnichols
Date: 10-05-2006, 09:19 PM (7 of 20)
We use aprons at holidays to avoid splashing dressy clothing with 'whatever' happens. My Mom & Aunt always have a supply. Then they get washed & put away till next year. I use them when I am baking or canning, or something big when I am most likely always wiping my hands on my clothing. I have several. I also make my kids wear them when they are helpling "cook" in the kitchen. 
Peggy
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From: DorothyL
Date: 10-05-2006, 10:38 PM (8 of 20)
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They were making cool reversible aprons on the sewing show on television Monday. Sewing With Nancy, I think it was. Dorothy |
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From: SummersEchos
Date: 10-06-2006, 08:36 AM (9 of 20)
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I make aprons a lot. We use them for my mom instead of an adult bib. My YD likes aprons to wear while cooking. I have been into making the aprons that remind me of my childhood days when mom wore them for cooking.
Summer
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From: plrlegal
Date: 10-08-2006, 10:00 PM (10 of 20)
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I don't own any aprons at the present time but I do remember my grandmothers wearing them. In fact, my maternal grandmother was a very southern lady and wore a corset, stockings, starched housedress and starched apron on the hottest day in the summer even when doing housework. I don't think I ever saw her without an apron on, come to think of it. Of course, by the time she was really elderly, I had married and moved away from home. I most often don't need an apron when I'm cooking because in the summer, I wear shorts and tees around the house and in the winter, it's sweats and tees, which neither of my grandmothers wore. On Sundays when I get home from church, we've either stopped and eaten lunch out on the way home or dh will generally fix lunch while I do something else. What do some of you other gals wear when cooking or working in the kitchen? Patsy Patsy
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From: Chrysantha
Date: 10-08-2006, 10:47 PM (11 of 20)
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Well...when I cook...(hahahahahaha...) t-shirts... I have a husband who likes to grill, so I let him. We eat out once or twice a week. (usually Saturdays and Monday if it's a holiday.) Sometimes we BOTH cook... (and it's really hard with 4 ferrets wanting attention at the same time...) 
Chrys
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From: beachgirl
Date: 10-08-2006, 11:18 PM (12 of 20)
| My mom always wore an apron. When cooking, gathering eggs, all kinds of work. The only aprons I ever put on was when I first got married & those little fru fru ones that were the "in thing" to wear but did nothing to really keep your clothes clean, Didn't use them long at all. What I wear to cook in is what I'm wearing. Shorts mostly or capri pants or jeans. Sweats if it gets chilly & that's not often in Southwest Florida. If I have dressy clothes on I change as soon as I hit the house. I'll even cook in my swim suit if I've been in the pool. We don't eat fried foods so worry about popping grease. |
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From: MotherInLaw
Date: 10-08-2006, 11:43 PM (13 of 20)
I collect aprons. I have about 6 at the present time. But I love them. I have several from the french quarters with obcene messages on them. One says "don't (with an obscene word on it) with the cook", of course I keep that one away from the kids it's the obcene one and one that says Red Beans and Rice and another one that says "Don't make me poison your food" one I made with a crab and turtle on it with Turtle soup and Boiled crabs embroideried on the front. I also have one from Cruisnart when I purchased my food processor. I cook and bake with an apron on most of the time. I'm a really messy cook especially when making things with flour like Cookies. LOL For the holidays I usually cook all my dinner and then slip off to dress so I don't dirty my clothes. On Holidays for the most part I usually cook for days before and then just pull everything out to reheat or thaw. I never could figure out what those little half aprons use to be for, they didn't cover up the most important thing, my top half. 
I'm regressing back into my youth, I just have to figure out how I'm going to convience my body to come along with me.
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From: Sancin
Date: 10-09-2006, 03:56 AM (14 of 20)
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Not only do I wear an apron when cooking (and sometimes cleaning), I actually wear them out. I have a collection from everywhere - my favourite being a skoocum canvas one left behind by my daughter when she worked at Burger King. I even tuck an apron in my suitcase when travelling in case I visit someone, they don't have any and they want help. My son is shocked by this when I arrive at his house ..... where I may actually wear one out. I have fabric and patterns in one of my 'to make' boxes.... along with the pot holders to remake!
*~*~*~* Nancy*~*~*~* " I try to take one day at a time - but sometimes several days attack me at once."
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From: DorothyL
Date: 10-09-2006, 08:46 AM (15 of 20)
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I usually cook in what I am wearing. And it's not jeans and a t-shirt. Since I am always wearing something I made, I hate splattering on it. I made myself an apron but kept forgetting to put it on before I cook. I think I should make a couple more. Dorothy |
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From: weezyrider
Date: 10-09-2006, 01:38 PM (16 of 20)
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I haven't got any now, but when my mother used to insist, I always used the ones that went around the waist and tied them backwards! I tend to wipe hands on backside more than I slop! Weezy |
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From: lsoutherla
Date: 10-09-2006, 02:41 PM (17 of 20)
| I remember them.... was one of the first things my Mother helped me make. This thread jogged my memory as to where my only apron is now - in a large ceramic bowl as a liner to the ceramic fruit in the bowl. When I bake I need an apron, but I wear an oversize t-shirt. This thread also brought back the memory of an apron I made when my DS was born. I made an apron and for several years, twice a year or so, I would trace his hand print and embrodier the hand print onto the apron with the date. I need to find that thing and pass it on to his wife. |
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From: heartland
Date: 10-10-2006, 01:35 PM (18 of 20)
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My Grandma always had aprons hanging on a hook in the hall way by the kitchen. She had one for outside work and a good one for housework. They were called cobbler aprons. I have one of her aprons hanging in my kitchen on a hook. Everytime I see it, I get a warm fuzzy feeling. I can almost smell the cookies and bread baking now. I don't wear an apron much. If I did, I'd have to wear it backwards, as I like to wipe my hands on my rear.
Donna
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From: GreenDragonLady
Date: 10-10-2006, 02:24 PM (19 of 20)
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I should wear mine backwards because hubby likes to wipe his hands on my rear! lsoutherla, that is such a sweet story about the hand prints. If you find the apron, I'd love to see a picture of it before you give it to his wife. photos.yahoo.com/greendragondesigns
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From: LeapFrog Libby
Date: 10-11-2006, 12:03 PM (20 of 20)
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I lost my dear Grandmother in 1947, just before my 13th birthday.. I still have a couple of her aprons, they are treasures in 2 ways.. 1. because she made them. and 2. the way she used her stash.. She made the aprons from 6 or 7 gores for the skirt part, and every other gore was feed sack prints and the other gores were from bleached flour sacks.. This way her precious feed sack prints went twice as far.. I love her aprons, for the warm fuzzy memories they bring..
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