Aprons are potent symbols of women and domesticity. As utilitarian garments, they are worn and connected to a variety of professional and occupational settings: chefs, butchers, blacksmiths, waiters ...

Women in the 1950s were either housewives in frilly aprons who liked baking or secretaries who took dictation. Such is the popular view of the decade. But “Her Brilliant Career,” by British ...

Women are tying one on again. After cutting the strings to what had become a symbol of domesticity, they’re rediscovering the apron. At a recent party in San Francisco, the hostess donned a ...

Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties. By Rachel Cooke. Virago; 324 pages; £18.99. Buy from Amazon.co.uk FRILLY aprons and lipstick; feather dusters and rolling pins. These ...

Japan's famed "maid cafes" featuring coy young girls serving tea in frilly aprons and bonnets have been given a new twist - a cafe of unsmiling, grim-faced grannies reflecting a fast-greying nation.

“Grandma, especially, wore the fancier ones with ruffles and silky fabric for serving Thanksgiving dinner,” says Reinhardt, who lives in St. Louis and runs a food blog called Three Women in ...

Apron, £24, Sophie Allport for John Lewis This is all frilly girlishness with ruffles and bows from brands like Cath Kidston (for whom apron sales have jumped 112 percent year on year) and Toast.