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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The next time you visit the dentist, you may not have to put on that heavy, uncomfortable lead apron before having X-rays taken. The use of lead abdominal aprons, or thyroid collars, ...

“I feel like every woman who likes cooking has been given a stack of cutesy vintage aprons with frills,” Heather Cahill, the general manager Pizzeria Beddia in Philly, told me recently. “But man, give ...

For the past few months, Meier, of Minnetonka, was selling her aprons through word of mouth — the kind that travels fast among chefs and other restaurant professionals, for whom knives and aprons are ...