THE STRING THAT TIE, A SHORT TALE OF APRONS

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THE STRING THAT TIE, A SHORT TALE OF APRONS

For domestic workers in the early 1900’s, the apron was a conventional, all-purpose tool, used to carry wood and kindling, to gather eggs and vegetables, to wipe their brow in the noon-day sun…… 

• From Ma Dear’s Aprons, by Patricia C. McKissack, American author

There is comfort food and comfort clothing. Mashed potatoes and gravy, meatloaf, and apple crisp figure are comfort foods we can all relate to. Aprons, in my mind, constitute the notion of ‘comfort clothes’. I always feel perfectly comfortable in an apron - like an anachronism but perfectly comfortable. A woman wearing an apron: a rare sight, I know so don’t look for it on any MTV video soon. But no frock, skirt, frilly blouse or gown makes me feel more feminine, and out-of-this-era than I do wearing one of my aprons – even my standard white chef’s issue.  

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