The apron may have had its heyday in the 1950s, but the housewife coverup has resurfaced as more than a mark of Grandma’s pride. From the sheer and ruffled to the yellow polka-dotted, this dish-drying ...

"I cling like a cicada to the latticework of memory," wrote Henri Cole. Although his poem isn't about vintage aprons, for many, it could be. Bib and cocktail, cotton and organza, these everyday items ...

Once, in the Ozarks, Joyce Cheney saw a collection of aprons hanging on a clothesline in a grove of oak trees. “It was just lovely,” she recalled, thinking back to the vision that was the impetus for ...

They were popular in the 1950s, when women were sewing aprons with fun fabrics and flounces. But in the '60s, they went away — for decades, says EllynAnne Geisel, author of “The Apron Book: Making, ...

There’s a growing number of apron collectors who scour eBay and antique shops for pretty, frilly pinafores. But apron expert EllynAnne Geisel says there still isn’t much interest in what she calls ...