Old Fashioned Dress With Apron Pattern

Housewives in the 50s wore their prettiest aprons to welcome their husbands and house guests to dinner. Having female children habiliment matching aprons with their mothers, was a sign that she was fulfilling her role, training the next generation for their responsibilities equally perfect housewives.

Aprons were the first thing girls learned in their home economics grade in the 50s. Mothers sewed aprons at domicile and it was as well a course of raising money for community groups that they belonged to like church groups. They sold their homemade aprons at craft bazaars, adding decorations added value and cost to the garment.

Fine embroidery, smocking, stenciling and appliqué were newer ways to add embellishments. Sewing rickrack around edges and adding pockets were easy, fast and frugal ways to spice up a apparently apron.

Newspapers printed like shooting fish in a barrel vintage apron patterns for women and children to run up at home, while more complicated patterns for vintage aprons were sold by McCall'southward or Simplicity. They featured recent designs and colour trends.

Plain designs for aprons were running out of style and was beingness replaced by new, original prints. Themes of Nutrient, travel,  holidays reflected the trends and personality of the wearer. Plaids, stripes, polka dots, were among the variety of styles that were being used.

Men wore aprons in the 50s too, when barbecuing in the backyard. Their aprons had themes of barbecuing and bartending.

TYPE OF APRONS IN THE 50S

The 50s had the Cobbler Apron; this apron fully covered the summit half of the body only covered only role of the skirt. It had the look of a clothes bodice with side ties that brought in the wasp waist. Cobbler aprons had two or three big pockets that lined their front and were used in property items and were very useful during laundry days.

They became very pop in 1955 and their versions made out of plastic were used for messy chores.

Half aprons are also known as skirt aprons or server aprons were one of the most commonly used aprons in the 50s. They were made from arresting materials like rayon, cotton, linen and were pleated or gathered and tied almost all the way around the waist. Its curt manner allowed for easy motility and fabricated for a great gardening apron every bit it provided room for the women to keep their gardening tools at hand.

One-half aprons fitted over full swing skirts and hung long enough to protect the dress simply inappreciably e'er fell to the hemline. Some were smaller, dainty one-half aprons that served other purposes.

The solar day to twenty-four hour period selection frock besides existed in the 50s. They were the most practical aprons with a total front bib and straight or ruffled shoulder straps and an a-line skirt.

As dress skirts widths grew during the decade so did the skirt of the aprons. Most aprons had 2 large pockets in the front and were shaped into novelty shapes like hearts, diamonds and triangles.

The 50s as well had plastic Aprons; these were used for extra moisture duties. They started trending when plastic linens, curtains and place settings bloomed. Plastic aprons were very practical and seldom needed to exist washed, only wiped away.

Party Aprons are some other ready of aprons that existed in the 50s. They were the fanciest half aprons fabricated of organic, chinz or net and were besides referred to as dress, glamour, hostess or cocktail aprons. The fabric absorbed stains, so they were worn after meals were set to be served.

They were half aprons with decorative, small pockets and ruffles and layers to add drama to the wait. Half aprons were not worn over house dresses, women inverse into party dresses or a nicer day dress to put on a political party apron.

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