Aprons are good-old unisex accessory, and they are not any
more just for butchers and cooks. Style is no longer has to be sacrificed for
utilitarian functionality in the commercial and domestic kitchens. While most
of the hip aprons found in the stores are designed for women, there are also frequently
made aprons for men and children. Aprons bring the perfect harmony to celebrate
holidays with style and joy of cooking and backing, and joy of fashion.
The culinary and style enthusiasts alike experience a high
demand for aprons rebirth. This recent resurgence as fashionable and fun
accessory for cooking and entertaining is bringing out the clever designs,
array of colors and prints to functionality of the little bit of cloth for
domestic tasks. Fashion-forward aprons making women pretty, and they are complimenting
their outfits as any other fashion accessory. In retrospective, families want
to live better and healthier live-styles and as a result people returning to
the kitchen.
My mother, a city lady, always used an apron in the kitchen.
She was sewing and used her old Zinger till her old age. She used two sets of
aprons – one for domestic and kitchen work, and another to host the guests. She
was making beautiful aprons for all three-generation females in our family. At
one time, my mother, my daughter, and I worked in the kitchen with matching
aprons. My earliest memory runs to my little Indian Dance in mom’s apron, towel turban on the head, and mom’s
high heels on a hot summer August day at the family gathering outdoors. In the
fifties, Zelda was a champion of table settings and cooking for family and
friends in a cocktail apron around her waist when she entertained guests. She
was a working woman, and we all had our own responsibilities to help my mother.
She knew how to make something from nothing. I can say that I was raised with
aprons. My mother was sewing the everyday aprons from old cloth to salvage or
from fabric scraps and the fine aprons from new fabric specifically selected to
match the tablecloth or outfits, to serve and sit down to dinner. Despite their
humble beginnings, the aprons turned out to be real showcases of great sewing
skills, and ability to be creative, frugal and artistic.
Fragment from the book entitled "Aprons: Tale of Traditions" written by popular Florida Author, Ida Tomshinsky.
