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From: "Elizabeth Angela Guyver" <>
Subject: Re: [WarBrides] Fw: [HantsLife] Grandma's Aprons
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 13:13:26 -0000
References: <20060114.182401.21165.31073@webmail13.lax.untd.com> <b65d2a240601141838i32d61a56j4308dee0711338ea@mail.gmail.com>


In England the apron is still worn but not by young grandmas like myself but
by school cooks, nursery nurses and factory workers etc so children do see
them. Also they wear aprons themselves made of plastic to paint or younger
ones play with water and sand. But not in the same way as that piece talks
about. However, I am 60 and I never saw my Grandmother, her sisters or my
Mother wearing one. The only people who wore aprons were nurses in the
hospital. I think perhaps it was a culture thing about where you lived.

Take Care

Beth
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joyce Vonstrahl" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 2:38 AM
Subject: Re: [WarBrides] Fw: [HantsLife] Grandma's Aprons


> Gosh does this take me back,(I still use an apron once in a while) I
> remember MY Grandma, wearing back bombazine dresses (sometimes gray) and a
> black "Pinny" as we called them in Lancashire.It was a lovely reminder.
> Speaking of which, doesn't anyone else besides my daughter and I think
> Michele's idea of WW11 WarBrides stamps for the year of the Warbride is a
> good one.? Canada's community works so well together, lets put our Good
> Old
> USA on the stamp list too;
> Joyce.
> ps Hazel, thanks for your letters, I enjoy them so much.
>
> On 1/14/06, <> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded Message ----------
>> Aprons
>>
>> I don't think our kids know what an apron is.
>>
>> The principal use of Grandma's apron was to protect the dress underneath,
>> but along with that, it served as a potholder for removing hot pans from
>> the
>> oven.
>>
>> It was wonderful for drying children's tears, and on occasion was even
>> used
>> for cleaning out dirty ears. From the chicken coop, the apron was used
>> for
>> carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be
>> finished
>> in the warming oven.
>>
>> When company came, those aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids.
>> And when the weather was cold, grandma wrapped it around her arms.
>>
>> 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, it carried out the hulls.
>> In the Autumn, the apron was used to bring in apples that had fallen from
>> the trees.
>>
>> When unexpected company drove up the road, it was surprising how much
>> furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of seconds.
>> When dinner was ready, Grandma stood by the door and waved her apron,
>> everyone knew it was time to come in to dinner.
>>
>> It will be a long time before someone invents something that will replace
>> that "old-time apron" that served so many purposes.
>>
>>
>> REMEMBER Grandma used to set her hot baked apple pies on the window sill
>> to
>> cool.
>> Her granddaughters set theirs on the window sill to thaw....
>>
>> ~Unknown~
>>
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