Making, wearing, and sharing a bit of cloth and comfort.
By EllynAnne Geisel
Published by Andrews McMeel Publishing
This book is a cross between nostalgia and practicality, with collections of vintage aprons mixed with patterns of classic apron styles. The book begins with the Apron journey from practical work wardrobe to icon to collectable nostalgia to hot sewing trend. So follows a short history of the Apron in American culture. Further chapters concentrate on practicalities of looking after and making aprons, the various styles and patterns (such as the waist apron, bib apron and the smock apron). The main part of the book concentrates on stories and anecdotes with lovely images and examples of various aprons, some fun and funny and classic and retro and vintage and crazy and sexy, you name it the apron is represented in this book.
Throughout, the book is dotted patterns, stories, pictures and various snippets of apron nostalgia. I am not sure where this book fits, is it a craft/sewing book, or a history book, I think it might be classified as a popular culture book. I particularly enjoyed flicking through the images of vintage patterns and reading various stories of memories of mother’s or grandmother’s aprons collected and how the apron played a central role in their childhood.
A very sweet book that will appeal to both apron lovers and those interested in domestic culture and history.
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Thank you, kath_red, for a blue ribbon review of my beautiful publication, The Apron Book! The book is a tribute and you caught that thread…that aprons really do take us back, and in the nicest ways imaginable. xxea