History of Aprons

The History of Aprons

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

underneath, but along with that, it served as a potholder for 

removing hot pans from the oven.

It was wonderful for drying children's tears and

an occasion was even used for cleaning 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 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, the apron 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 onto the proch, waved her

apron, and the men knew it was time to come in from the fields to dinner.

It will be a long time before someone invents something that will

replace that "old-time apron" that served so many purposes.

REMEMBER: Grandma used her apron to set her hot baked apple pies 

on the windowsill to cool.  Her granddaughters set theirs on the 

windowsill to thaw.

They would go crazy now trying to figure out how many germs were on 

that apron.  I don't think I ever caught anything from an apron except LOVE.

*I received this poem  from my mother-in-law with a darling apron last year for christmas. 

We don't know who the author is.