As my webpage says, one of my on going projects is to research aprons. It’s been slow going though and I have gotten much of chance to do more than collect a few period articles lately. However, I have been scanning photos out of my grandmother’s photo album
Dora Kessler
(she’s the one on the far left) and I stumbled across this one from my Great-Great-Grandmother’s 80th birthday, October 3, 1945. Both Dora Kessler (the honoree) and her daughter Neva Kessler Buchmayer are wearing their aprons in this important family photo.
Gram Kessler is still wearing an apron with a pin up bib. I can’t believe it. That would drive me crazy. I think straps are the best innovation ever in full length aprons. Here she is, not too far fashion in her dress, but still wearing her old style circa 1900 apron, just shortened in style to match her modern dress. Neva is also wearing a full length apron of a style I like and the style she was still wearing of aprons when I knew her in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It has straps and is a very attractive apron, while still being useful covering much of the clothes and with an ample skirt portion for the many other tasks aprons were used for.
Apron close up
While I’ve found a few other apron photos I’ll be sharing in future (and updating to my website soon) I really was so pleased to find this image. If anyone comes across a dated family photo with an apron, I’d be delighted to see a copy.
