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Have been thinking about the olden days when my mom and grandmother wore aprons. I wear one every Thanksgiving and Christmas but got to thinking why I don't wear one more often. Do you wear aprons?

Do you remember all the pretty aprons, most were home made, made out of left over material with rick-rack and little appliques.  Some were full and some were half. You could always see an apron thrown over the door or on the back of the chair.

Here are some aprons that my bring back some really, really, good memories.

My sister sent this to me. She still often wears aprons.

Some uses for Aprons:
  It was wonderful for drying children's tears, and on some instances could
even used for  cleaning out dirty ears. Mother would put out a fresh apron every morning.

•   From the chicken coop, the apron was used for carrying eggs,  fussy
  chicks,  sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the
  warming oven.
• And when the weather was cold, Grandma or Mother wrapped it around her arms to keep warm.
• When company  came, those aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids.
• Those big old  aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent over  the
  hot wood stove.
• Chips and kindling wood were brought into the kitchen in that apron. From the garden, it carried all sorts of vegetables. After the peas had been shelled that old apron carried out the hulls.
• When unexpected company drove up the road, it was surprisinghow
  much furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of seconds.
• When dinner was ready, Grandma or Mother walked out onto the porch, waved the
  apron, and the  men knew it was time to come in from the fields  to
  dinner.
• It will be a long time before someone invents something that will
  replace that 'old-time apron' that served so many purposes.

In today's world we would go crazy trying to figure out a way to keep germs off the apron.
 
                                      I don't think I ever caught anything from an apron---except love.

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