big, bad, evil aprons!

**mom22grls** · 02-09-2006, 09:51 AM

Look at what my local paper published today...............

http://www.journalstar.com/articles/...f585045397.txt

Quote:

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Today the Kitsch ‘n Glam Web site shows rows of apron-clad women (and one apron-clad man) looking positively thrilled — gleeful — to be in the kitchen and wearing an apron.

Very kitschy.

Very June Cleaver.

Very ‘50s.

Remember the 1950s?

That’s what worries me about aprons.

**marym** · 02-09-2006, 09:58 AM

Oh Brother!

**homesteadmamma** · 02-09-2006, 09:59 AM

Well we won't say what we really want to say about this reporter. Good gravy, the lady is off her rocker!!!!

**mom22grls** · 02-09-2006, 10:07 AM

I'm trying to write a*polite* e-mail to her....maybe she is stuck in that office so much that she hasn't seen the *real* world for awhile.

SOME WOMEN stay home & ....are you ready.....*WEAR APRONS!"

EVEN over their stretch levis!

With the freedom won by the feminist movement.....women get to *choose* to be June Cleaver....if they want to.....and heaven forbid......wear an *APRON*!!

Ok, so my hormones have kicked in. I'll calm down & try to be polite.

**Darlene** · 02-09-2006, 10:19 AM

Sounds like she's got problems, if you don't want to wear one, don't. Sheesh. Don't worry lady, you can still keep in touch with your manly side. Bet she has a cleaning lady and eats take out often, too bad for her family.
Me~Proud to get up in the morning put on my apron kinda gal.

**mom22grls** · 02-09-2006, 10:26 AM

OH! I forgot......
The headline on the web page is different than in the paper......

"This fashion trend might have some women fit to be tied"

Nice.

**celina** · 02-09-2006, 10:40 AM

hmmmm, i guess its more fashionable getting butter and flour all over my shirt making bread, after 3 shirts got so bad and couldnt get them cleaned good enough, i got 2 aprons...wow....me a 29 yr old women who's college educated and everything....

jeepers......its like when my friends all freaked out that im a sahm....its choice!!

**guest32** · 02-09-2006, 11:09 AM

Quite frankly, I've half a mind to send her one of my vintage style aprons I've been making! Complete with vintage ric rac I've searched out! Oh...and should I tell her that BOTH my daughters wear aprons...the 24 year old who's a SAHM, and the 23 year old who went over and served in Iraq, and is now setting up housekeeping!!! But nope...only people I care about get MY handmade aprons! So there!

**northernmom2boys** · 02-09-2006, 11:14 AM

I love my apron.I buy mine at the dollar store and they are very nice lol
Michelle

Im going to put my apron on now just cause I feel like it

**Early Bird** · 02-09-2006, 11:24 AM

I find aprons practical. Where else do you get so many pockets on one garment!

And I wear mine out the front door all the time! Putting trash out, checking mail, etc.

**Emerald_Mommy** · 02-09-2006, 11:59 AM

Originally posted by mom22grls

SOME WOMEN stay home & ....are you ready.....*WEAR APRONS!"

EVEN over their stretch levis!

With the freedom won by the feminist movement.....women get to *choose* to be June Cleaver....if they want to.....and heaven forbid......wear an *APRON*!!

**Missy** · 02-09-2006, 12:57 PM

I don't feel june cleaver at all when i wear my many aprons. I wear them to protect my clothes!! My husband didn't pin me down and force me into them. It isn't an example of me being tied to the kitchen or into a role of domesticity that I didn't want. Yeesh!! When I paint with the kids, on comes an apron, (on them too!!) when I bake, on comes an apron...etc etc!! Geeze DH wears a BBQ apron at the grill. Wonder if I should tell him the implications of that!! Man alive the writer of that article has her panties in a twist.

**Darlene** · 02-09-2006, 01:29 PM

Just had a thought...No cookies for her!!!

**canadian gardener** · 02-09-2006, 01:33 PM

I can hardly write I'm hyperventilating so bad.

OK so my inner hippy chick women's libber wants to tell that young and foolish child

WHO SAID MEN'S CLOTHES MATTER MORE!!!!!

WHO SAID WOMEN'S CLOTHING CHOICES ARE LESS PRACTICAL, LESS ARTISTIC, LESS IN EVERY WAY THAN CORPORATE WEAR WHICH IS A MAN's "uniform" look.

WOMEN's ART RULES!!!! Quilts, Aprons, knitting, crochet, WHO SAY's that WEARABLE ART that is PRACTICAL isn't a viable option.

WHY is traditional women's stuff, somehow LESS????????????????

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

snarl, growl

and for petes sake if she had 2 neurons to rub together in that empty bone box she calls a skull,

SHE WOULD REALIZE THAT KEEPING CLOTHING, yes even corporate boring work wear NICE IS A PLUS!!!!!!!

Or perhaps SHE should arrive at work with ketchup splashed ever so colourfully down her BORING LITTLE CORPORATE OUTFIT!!!!

No offense intended to anyone who has to wear corporate wear, I think it can be quite chic, and very pulled together and honestly it's what I prefer to see on a banker, male OR female when I walk in to a bank.

BUT REALLY what a put down of women's ingenuity down thru the ages.

Like the stuff we do at home doesn't matter, it's only when we do what used to be considered "men's" work that matters.

AND for the record, it's not Women's work or Men's work

and MEN WEAR APRONS for GOOD REASONS when they are cooking and cleaning or they soon will when they get the cleaning bill or have to throw out a suit that got bleach on it!

HAH

My dh is blue collar, and he gets ACID holes in his jeans. He wears a rubber apron at work, and when he forgets, we have to buy more jeans.

For PETES SAKE!!!!!

**dndylfe** · 02-10-2006, 12:36 AM

Ooohh, mermaid, do you really make your own aprons?? I want one. Hey, did you see that we're both in Idaho? So maybe you could even show me how to make my own....