Collecting Vintage Aprons

Collecting vintage aprons can be a hobby for many collectors. People who are always on the lookout for antique and specially made linen and aprons are the real collectors. These vintage aprons go back to the times when a mother would wear them and bake sweet meets for her children and children would love to come back home to smell the delicious food their mother was making, wearing the apron of course.

These aprons are found in various fabrics with a varied quality of art work and various styles of laces on them. Collecting vintage aprons would get better when you see the fine embroidery made with hand by the women at home. These homemade collectibles are surely a collector’s pride. To start with there are the late fifties style ones which have patterns on them and are very colorful. Simple aprons turn to bright pieces of art with the colors in them. Some others would be the ‘both way wear’ ones with floral designs on the apron and a plain pocket and when you change its sides, it becomes a plain apron with a floral design pocket. How useful could an apron get?

The variety of styles in aprons does not end here. You can start collecting vintage aprons by choosing from the mother daughter duo combination ones with difference in size or the beautifully embroidered card game one with the aces in red and black color. You can also have the special Christmas collection and you would never want to make them old by using them. You could even get a complete set for a perfect hostess with matching napkins and a card table cloth. This surely is not the end.

Some of the hot favorites would be the Gingham aprons which have cross stitching on the hems and waist. Some even have smocking done on the waist which makes them look very feminine. The pockets are usually a contrast colour.

Women start collecting vintage aprons not only because they have been wearing them for years but because they have a special corner in their heart for them. They might have sown their first apron in the school craft or sewing class and that’s what makes them special. 

Collecting vintage aprons is not easy and you would have to find the real antique shops which sell them. They could be priced at anything between $10 to $80 depending on the quality, hand work and fabric used. A collector would always have to look for the real collectors stuff because these vintage aprons are the ones which mark the occasion you are wearing them at.