Aprons

Magenta8

I wear a Hazmat suit.

Ha! Ha!

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.

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

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

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

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.

That's my kind of apron, lilypolen! 😂

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.

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!

Thanks! Am ordering Elbow Grease.

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.

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 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.

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

Wearing an apron to protect my clothes is so ingrained in me that I can barely enter the kitchen without reaching for my beloved red apron - my children gave it to me for one of those birthdays with an '0' on the end (it wasn't my only present from them!) Sadly the wording that was on it has mostly disappeared as it has been washed SO many times. I also volunteer in a Community Coffee Shop and we all have white aprons with our logo on.

MrB wears an apron when he’s cooking, it is quite a manly leatherworker’s apron though

Pinnie as all the way. Love my pinny and feel naked without it.
My friends laugh but it keeps my clothes clean

Labradora

Paperbackwriter

Just out of curiosity, what on earth are some of you doing with all that bleach your aprons are protecting you from????!

It's in all the floor cleaning fluids particularly toilet cleaner. It's very easy to splash it accidentally then the colour is stripped from the bit that you've splashed.

I mix up the kitchen spray with the pre-wash stain remover sometimes & pre-spray my clothes with bleach. It's very annoying.
New kitchen now, & I've put laundry & general cleaners in two hopefully non-mixuppable cupboards.

I own aprons… depending on what I’m cooking depends if I wear one… on the other hand depending on what we’re eating I’ll wear one then 😂🤣😂

Never worn an apron in my life,neither did my mum. My gran wore a crossover pinnie...

I do t own an apron. If it gets messy it gets washed.

I wear a (full-length) apron for washing-up. I've never yet figured out how come I manage to splash water down my front and often on the floor too when I wash up - but somehow I do and so I land up with wet clothes all too often if I wash up without one.

Unless the weather is hot enough for Southerner me (which it usually isn't - as I am a South of England person living in West Wales these days) - and in that case I'm not wearing any clothes to get wet anyway. But the weather here is rarely too hot in my opinion - and I console myself with "At least it's rarely too hot to sleep at night" (which is the downside of living in my southern City sometimes).

I made my first apron at primary school and still have it to wonder at the yards of ties, oversewn with miniscule stitches I can hardly see. I still love hand-sewing.
I wear a homemade pinny for baking.

Mt61

Jaxjacky

Just clothes, sometimes nothing for the first cup of tea/coffee.

What nude😳😂

Nothing wrong with that!

If I’m cleaning, I just wear older clothes, I do splash a lot of cleaning products/bleach around. However I wear an apron over nicer clothes when cooking, washing up etc. I’m a real messy soul, and very splashy. My mother said I was born under a fountain! 😁

I have 2 aprons with bibs and often wear one of Mum's 1950's / 60's waist tie aprons. I especially like the red apron with the black cat which she made late 50's.