Question for Tuesday.

[Guest guest]

Anyone ever own one or two of these? I used to make and wear what was called

then " cobbler aprons " which were similar and somehow through the ages, stopped

wearing them and have long since lost the pattern. I used to really like them

and would give anything to have one now.

My grandmother and one of my aunts used to wear the all around serviceable

aprons all their lives (homemade, of course) and I have several photos of the

family way back when (100 years or so) where even for the casual photos, the

women were always in aprons.

I bought two homemade " half " aprons with pockets at a women's convention in Long

Beach in 1961 and used them also for years. Wore like iron and I still have one

of them somewhere, ragged and soft from years of washing and wear, but still

could be serviceable if I were to drag it out.

Course you guys never wore one, but I'm sure someone in your life must have.

Anyone have any tales about the aprons in their lives?

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The principle use of Grandma's apron was to protect the dress underneath, but

along with that, it served as a holder 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 old 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 it 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 on the porch and waved her apron, and

the men knew it was time to come in from the fields for dinner.

It will be a long time before anyone invents something that will replace that

old-time apron that served so many purposes.

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