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Do you wear a pinny?

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NotAGran55 Sat 29-Oct-22 20:50:44

I only wear an apron on one day of the year, on Christmas Day when I am dressed ready to greet my guests.

I do all my food preparations in my casual clobber in the morning, then shower , make-up, hair and dress.

Pinny then donned to protect me until I sit to the table.

maddyone Sat 29-Oct-22 23:54:53

When I’m working in the kitchen I do. Especially when I’m baking, but for other jobs too.

CanadianGran Sun 30-Oct-22 03:32:33

I do, in the kitchen and while cleaning. I save my older ones with stains for cleaning the bathroom. I've ruined many clothes with bleach stains while scrubbing the tub.

Just the other day I took my apron off too early, and managed to get an oil stain on a nice sweater while prepping for book group. Had a blob of oil right in the middle of my chest.

BigBertha1 Sun 30-Oct-22 05:44:14

Yes I do it's a Sophie Alport Trees at the moment. For Christmas I bought Bubbles and Fizz last year I shall wear that. I have blue and white striped one too.

teabagwoman Sun 30-Oct-22 06:23:41

I do and they have to have a large pocket so I have pen and notebook to hand.

BlueBalou Sun 30-Oct-22 06:29:19

Yes, always and also when doing art. It’s saved many a grease mark or bleach splash on my clothes 😊

M0nica Sun 30-Oct-22 06:50:54

Wear aprons, but not pinny's.

Like others, I am a messy person and i have a whole wardrobe of them.The one I put on for cooking, one for cleaning, worn far less and I have a custom made one for the garden.

It was made by DD and is in three layers with a waterproof layer in the middle and a whole series of different size pockets scattered down the front so that opened and empty seed packets can go in separate pockets, ties in another and secateurs in a third. very useful.

Oopsadaisy1 Sun 30-Oct-22 07:49:43

I have some full pinafore type of aprons, one is a flowery Cath Kidson one, one is green stripes, one is a plain burgundy one.
Depending on how messy the recipe is depends on which one I wear. I don’t like chilli sauce on the flowery one.
I don’t wear them for anything other than cooking, they were all gifts from the children as they noticed the flour/oils splashes on me!

ginny Sun 30-Oct-22 07:53:38

Yes, when I am cooking or baking. I am a messy cook and it has saved many of my clothes from greasy or oily stains.

biglouis Sun 30-Oct-22 07:53:51

Never owned or worn one since I left school.

M0nica Sun 30-Oct-22 09:40:25

I have worn mine since I got a tiny splash of bleach on a new, and expensive, plain coloured dress.

Grandmabatty Sun 30-Oct-22 09:41:59

I wear an apron when cooking and baking as I'm very messy and tend to have flour bedecked boobs otherwise

Prentice Sun 30-Oct-22 09:45:59

Grandmabatty

I wear an apron when cooking and baking as I'm very messy and tend to have flour bedecked boobs otherwise

The same here, it is not the best look when answering the door either.
Always wear where bleach is concerned, it is so easy not to notice a tiny splash on clothes.
I have four aprons, and now we are talking of them would like a Christmassy one.

Margiknot Sun 30-Oct-22 10:05:12

I’ ll wear a pinny to protect my clothes when cooking and always for baking. It depends on which clothes I have on and how messy the cooking- yesterday I was wearing a dressy top that was a gift ( and may be difficult to wash) so on went the pinny. If I was wearing old washable clothes I would only don a pinny for baking.

Yammy Sun 30-Oct-22 11:20:18

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.blush
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.

Yammy Sun 30-Oct-22 11:20:57

pinny not penny

Witzend Sun 30-Oct-22 11:24:50

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. 🤬

mermaid66 Sun 30-Oct-22 11:28:44

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

AreWeThereYet Sun 30-Oct-22 15:17:12

'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.

LottieinSuffolk Sun 30-Oct-22 15:22:49

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!

JaneJudge Sun 30-Oct-22 15:27:09

I do at work but not at home

GrannieBabi Sun 30-Oct-22 18:24:33

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!

Davida1968 Sun 30-Oct-22 18:37:34

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!)

M0nica Sun 30-Oct-22 19:29:39

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

Yammy Sun 30-Oct-22 19:31:57

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.

grannypiper Mon 31-Oct-22 12:08:52

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