For Fairview’s Judy Vetrovec, the history of aprons is as important as their beauty and practicality. The longtime collector says people attending her lectures and displays of aprons always are ...

HINER — When Virginia Helweg began seriously collecting old aprons a few decades ago, she simply found it fun. “I just always liked them,” she says. Helweg didn't realize she was preserving history, ...

“Aprons: Plain and Fancy" is an exhibit at the Ontario County Historical Society in Canandaigua. CANANDAIGUA, NY — Lucille Ball of “I Love Lucy” wore one and so did the Beaver’s mother, June Cleaver.

In cooking and bartending, or operations involving creativity, culture, and experience are a mainstay, and an apron is not just equipment but represents you. At the level of aprons, personalization is ...

I feel terribly amiss if I’m not wearing an apron while working in the kitchen. That’s like a handyman without a tool belt or a gardener without gloves and shears in the back pocket. The simple design ...

“Everyone has an apron story,” says EllynAnne Geisel, an apron archaeologist whose collection and related research are on display in “Apron Memories,” an ongoing exhibit at Doylestown’s Mercer Museum.

“Aprons don’t hold us back, they take us back,” says EllynAnne Geisel. “As women, we wouldn’t be who we are without them, and we celebrate them by bringing them back in the sweetest way possible.” ...

Seven years ago, EllynAnne Geisel bought her first apron. “Up until 1999,” she says, “I just wiped my hands on my clothes like everyone else.” But with her youngest child off to college, this ...

CANANDAIGUA, NY — Lucille Ball of “I Love Lucy” wore one and so did the Beaver’s mother, June Cleaver. Most TV moms of the 1950s and 1960s donned an apron, a reflection of what their female viewers ...