My wife wears one every weekday, all day long, in the fabric shop. I wear one while I’m there too, but mine’s a heavy blue denim “cobbler’s style” and hers are what I would call a “smock style” that she makes out of her latest quilting cottons. The apron covers both front and back, with the sides open and held together with hook & loop on side straps. She has a whole “fleet” of them in different colors & prints to cover the seasons (including wheat harvest season and cotton harvest season). I only have two, but have some more of the same old heavy denim that came from a local jeans factory that closed years ago to make a couple more. They last a long time. It’s that good heavy denim that they used to make.
She wears a full-front “kitchen style” apron when she cuts my hair. I wear a cotton duck cape that she made years ago, when she first began cutting her guys’ hair. She cut her Dad’s, mine, and our two sons hair (until they got “too old” for home haircuts, of course). She’s been my barber for 36 years this coming August. Once a month, she trims up both my hair and my beard. During the Spring and Summer she cuts it out on the back patio, and we sweep the hair trimmings off of the patio onto the grass so the birds can have it for their nest building.
CD in Oklahoma