From fig leaf to designer fashion … Where there's an apron, there is creative action. Whether it's in the kitchen in front of the stove, behind a woodworker's lathe, in a butchery, a blockman's cold room or chef's gourmet stainless-steel kitchen, at a baker's oven, shoemaker's last, blacksmith's anvil or in the studio of a sculptor, painter or potter.
The status of the apron has changed over the centuries: from the starched white cotton workwear of slave girls in stately colonial mansions to the frilled fashion accessories of the country gentlemen's snobbish wives.
To this day, an apron is indispensible when one is working and creating, but in certain careers and trades they are also something of a status symbol. They can even be sexy, if you wait for your husband at the front door wearing only a cheeky apron … On the other hand though, there is the degrading notion that
