Aprons

I wear mine for cooking, and eating!

I wear PVC aprons to protect my clothes when I'm eating something with a tomato or other sauce or lots of gravy. I wore one last night when eating chicken pieces marinated in a curry paste that contained turmeric.
I don't usually wear it when cooking unless food being fried in oil splashes on to the hob.

I hate PVC aprons - stuff slides off.

I often wear an apron but only when cooking.

ginny

I wear an apron when I’m cooking or baking. I am messy and have a tendency to wipe my hands down my front. I have in the past ruined several garments.

Don’t want to

We have an IKEA apron nobody wears (impulse buy) .

I am a messy cook. Dog lies in wait for tasters on the floor. When I'm lying on the sofa he leans in to inhale my clothes for splashzones. Right now he'd get a whiff of today's lunch ( chicken with mushrooms in herby cream) , yesterdays. lunch ( spag bol ), lemon drizzle cake and maybe a splash of sauvignon.

I don't have an apron either.

I have an apron but often forget to wear it. My mum used to wear hers all the time, changing into a half one in the afternoon. I am a messy eater, especially with gravy and spag bol, so I wear a tea towel which can easily go in the wash and I don’t worry if it gets stained.

I always wear an apron when cooking. I haven't a clue how the rest of you don't get food stains, splashes, spills on your clothes. Maybe I'm just a mucky pup. I've just made two more. I can make the waist ties longer. I wonder why 😁

I have lovely aprons with pockets and wear them for anything that stains eg beetroot or fresh turmeric or when making red sauerkraut like yesterday. Dirty housework or gardening, jeans and a cotton top

I always intend to wear an apron to stop my clothes getting messy, then I forget to launder them and they end up stained & I don't want to use them.
I would like to get into a routine of wearing one. Baking is one of my least messy kitchen activities, but any other cooking & I'm terribly mess-prone.

I am always surprised that MaryBerry doesn't wesr one on her cookery shows as she wears such pretty clothes and is close to the frying pan a lot of the time.

I wear one for cooking. I have an old one to wear in the garden.

I wear an apron when baking - I have four and circulate them…

I always wear an apron when serving coffee/food at “public” events.

I love my aprons but only wear them for washing up and other kitchen jobs. It is second nature for me to put one on- it keeps my clothes clean!

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.

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.

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.

Housecoat

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.

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?🤣🤣🤣

No, I don’t wear one.

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.

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 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. 🤣

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!

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