My young granddaughter loves to bake and recently I bought her some cooking accessories including a cute little pink apron with her name emblazoned across the chest. It brought back memories of my ...

Is there another kitchen object that carries as much baggage as the apron? A whisk and a wooden spoon are, after all, tools to get the job done. But an apron? For years, aprons were commonplace and ...

Aprons aren't just a distant memory from Grandma's kitchen anymore. In a demonstration for residents of Langdon Place in Exeter, Ann Marie O'Bara hangs her extensive apron collection from a ...

HINER — When Virginia Helweg began seriously collecting old aprons a few decades ago, she simply found it fun. “I just always liked them,” she says. Helweg didn't realize she was preserving history, ...

I started collecting aprons because I thought they would somehow string me along into the kitchen and inspire me to finally bust out the pots and pans I received as wedding gifts. Unfortunately, that ...

If the aprons in Esther Duncan's collection could talk, she bets they'd have some pretty good stories about hard-working farm women. Since the collectible garments can't talk, at least not in the ...

Apron Strings: Ties to the Past, a new art exhibit in Irving, explores the changing roles of women and attitudes about domestic work from the early 1900s to present. Irving Archives and Museum A new ...