I'm fortunate enough to have a couple of my Grandma's aprons. She had a bunch of them because she put a clean one on every day and sometimes would change them throughout the day. Her's were the full aprons with the bibs. Mom preferred the half aprons. Women also used to use their aprons as a belly cover when they were pregnant. Unless you were really wealthy or someone in your family died you didn't have maternity clothes because you didn't go out into the public during the last several months of pregnancy. Women would wear button front dresses, unbutton them around their expanding bellies and put an apron on to cover the gap. Usually they'd wear two, one to do all the above mentioned things and one to keep their belly covered.
Isn't it funny now how every thing says "weight limit xxx lbs"? Back then if you could carry it, an apron would hold it. From wild flowers and apples to newborn lambs and baby piglets.