The antidote to fast-fashion…
I love clothes. Whether it’s the vintage finds carefully selected from piles of tat, the handmade items I’ve designed and fitted just for me, or even the shop-bought kind that took hours of searching the internet for the perfect dress for the occasion. These aren’t merely scraps of fabric used to prevent arrest for indecent exposure, our clothes reflect who we are, and have memories and meanings attached to them. To me, fast-fashion and the idea that clothes are now disposable items you wear once, or even for just one season, seems completely bonkers. When you find the perfect dress/skirt/blouse (delete as applicable), you want to look after it, and that got me thinking about how people used to care for their clothes before Primark existed… the answer: aprons.
A thoroughly modern pinny…
When searching for aprons on the internet, you would be forgiven for thinking that the only options available are frilly, chintzy, stepford wives style aprons, or ones that instruct the wearer to ‘Keep Calm and do something irrelevant that is not even vaguely amusing’. Where were all the chic, modern and hardwearing aprons that I had pictured in my head? I wanted something that would last a lifetime but also be comfortable as well as flattering, as much suited to crafting as in the kitchen. And lo, the thoroughly modern pinny was born.
