Aprons/tabard/overalls - stepford or practical?

[babaworshipper]

Sounds awful doesn't it!

As the sah owner of a 2 year old and one due August I have realised that I have years of small sticky fingers covering me in debris not to mention the other stuff.

It took me a year after having dd to realise that dressing smartly made me feel so much better and I don't want that to stop. I do get fed up of the marks etc though and can't be bothered/don't have time to change everytime we are going out.

So would I be crazy to buy some sort of overall type thing which i could then toss to one side and unveil the cleaner me?

Or is all too 50's for words...

maybe this should be in style

I wear aprons quite often ie whenever I am cooking or doing a big clean. But I wear chefs aprons I had in a previous life, I find them really comfortable, almost secure although I know that sounds weird.
Seriously though - try a catering wholesaler for some really cheap hardwearing ones.

Winnie and friends enjoying their acceptable aprons

I still wear my school home ec apron - is a catering-standard one like Carmenere suggested but doens't help on the shoulders.

Thinking of school overalls, we used to have something linke this for science - bit dressing-gowny but ticks all the boxes...

I really like that kimono-style overall thing Mrs Badger

I really wanted a 1940s house coat when the kids were younger. I was stick of having snot trails, milk stains and vomit marks all over me.
I never found the perfect one though. Recently I discovered these and feel myself wanting one again!

they are fab

spagblog they are a work of art! i would hate to get them dirty!

They are wonderfully retro, aren't they.

I would love one of those too but do you think they would do special ones for mumsnetters that had extra padding around the bottom area for extended computer usage?

I wonder if a kimono-type wrap, or a kaftan / kurta / kameez, is going to be more stylish than a tabard or a housecoat - easy to sling on and off too...

Now, if only you were a man you could wear a smoking jacket ...

LOL! Built in cushioned bottom for mumsnetting!
I wish I could sew. Maybe if I find a pattern I could get my mum to have a go at making me one.

But you would have to wear the cravat with it for the full effect.

Patterns here .

I'm sure that it's only in the world of patterns that the word 'misses' is still used.

I solved the problem by just keeping my pyjamas on all day.

Ooh here too

under vintage aprons

or some seriously vintage patterns \link}http://store.sewingtoday.com/cgi-bin/butterick/shop.cgi?s.item.B4087=x&TI='apron'&page=1\here} , here and here - loving those ruffles!

pmsl, right going to send the links to my mum!

Spagblog - love the petal effect ones. And love those too MrsBadger - you could make the frills extra wide, for snot-catching duties.

I must stop clicking on these links adn get on with some work

ooh I love this one - think View 1 might actually be more elegant than the clothes underneath I'd be trying to keep clean...

they're so sweet, we used to make aprons at school as part of home ec

Actually am loving those ones Spagblog! So kitsch!

And thank you for making me not the only one who has considered this!

Oh those patterns are fab! Am having fantasies of me & dd baking in the kitchen whilst listening to Frank Sinatra. May just have to order one and buy the floweriest fabric imaginable.

dh will hate it