The History Of The Apron

I got this in an email today and the memories came flooding back.
I so remember my Grandmother’s aprons. It is sad that the kids of today hardly know what one was or is….

I don’t think our kids know what an apron is.

The principal 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 on occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears.

From the chicken coop, the apron was used for
carrying eggs, fuzzy 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 woodstove.

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
porch, 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.

Send this to those who would know, and who would
love the story about Grandma’s aprons.

REMEMBER:

Grandma used to set her hot baked apple pies on the
window sill to cool.
Her granddaughters set theirs on the window sill to thaw.