Kitchen Apron

While everyday women were using kitchen aprons for a variety of tasks, television shows mirrored this by featuring women wearing aprons in nearly every episode of family favorites. Over the past four decades, many of these shows have been in re-runs allowing later generations to have a peek into life in the 1950s. Naturally, it was not as idyllic as portrayed on television, but the shows have helped develop a stereotype of both the 1950s, in general, and kitchen aprons.

Magazines from the 1940s and 50s feature apron-adorned women in nearly every advertisement that is related to housework or cooking. It was a standard uniform that, at the time, was not frowned upon. Aprons were a selling feature for irons, kitchen appliances, food products and more.

The kitchen apron remained a common fixture in homes for more than a century until the late 70s and into the 1980s. By then, primarily food service workers and weekend barbecues were using the apron. While there are many kitchens in America that are apron-less, it is experiencing resurgence in popularity for many women. According to Antiques and Collectibles magazine, aprons of the 1950s have been "experiencing a revival." Younger generations are looking back to what their grandmothers had and emulating it in a new way. Retro housewives clubs are popping up in large cities and over the Internet; looking back to the past for inspiration and style.

"In the kitchen were I grew up there was a drawer for nothing but aprons. My mother and grandmother would not be caught in the kitchen without one. I remember lime green with lace, pink calico, a blue one made from the same material as the tablecloth, a brown one with yellow chickens, a yellow one with teacups and saucers. The first thing I see when that room rises up in memory is a woman standing by the stove -- a woman in a kitchen apron." Text from: deerlakeaprons.com

Working in the last months with stamps. I decided to insert this ideas into the Apron. Here is the result