Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 273, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1914 — A Few Good Kitchen Aprons [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A Few Good Kitchen Aprons

THE up-to-date kitchen apron is by no means an ungraceful garment, and much ingenuity is evident in designing It. to meet all the requirements of housework and good looks at the same time. The new patterns, that cover the entire figure, look better and are far more practical than the aprons set on to a band, that preceded them. It is just about as easy to make aprons that protect the whole dress, cover the sleeves and stay In place, as to make those gathered to a band, and it is quite as easy to do them/ up. Gingham, calico and -percale are used, cut by plain kimono-sleeved patterns like that shown in the picture given here. Indigo blue and white, or black and white, are selected for permanency in color. Any patterns In figures and checks and stripes give one a wide choice In design. Aprons made of these good substantial cotton fabrics having a white ground with black stripes are great favorites for “cook-aprons.” Shepherd’S checks and polka dots figure among these also. For sweeping and dusting the indigo blue cottons with small white dots for figures aye made up with caps to match and are better than the mere readily soiled cottons wife white ground for these purposes. Turkey-red cotton fabrics are used for making bindings on the shepherd’s checks more particularly but are liked on the dark blue aprons as

well, The red will not fade in the least with any amount of-.washing, •and Is therefore liked better than any other solid color. The apron pictured is an example of the use of this red binding on a medium large shepherd’s check. The neck, sleeves, pocket and edges are bound with it. It brightens up the otherwise ordinary pattern and makes it really attractive. Some aprons are made of the heavier cotton crepe in gray and finished with borders In solid colors or figures. These usually. fasten in front and. look very much like home dresses. They are not closed below the waist line and are easily slipped on and off. The front of the dress under them Is protected because, In these patterns, the fronts overlap. The new aprons are. In fact, so like house dresses that they- may be worn Instead of a dress. But they are made with ample sleeves, round necks and simple fastenings,* so that they slip on over'a dress easily. Sleeves are short and out of the way. Altogether, well chosen kitchen or work aprons may be said to be attractive in themselves. - Certainly the neat housewife knows how to look very “fetching” in them, JULIA BOTTOMLEY. Some of the new evening models have apron drapery in the front; and an odd thing about it is that the apron section falls longer than the foundation. The apron is of metallic lace.