The human mind is a strange thing, I have no idea what made me this of this. I was saying to Lady M recently that 'house coats' must be a thing of the past.
I had an Aunt in Shropshire (she died back in the 80's) who always wore a 'house coat'. She put it on in the morning, over her normal clothes, and wore it all day long. I think at that time most of her neighbours did the same. It was a housewife's uniform.
This lovely looking lady (below) is French, and shows the classic apron previously worn by most French housewives; again it was like a uniform.
Just as a matter of interest I looked on Amazon to see if house coats still existed. I came across plenty of Aprons, and short things called 'tabards', but no actual house coats.
I'm not sorry they have disappeared. They were not something we saw down south; they were more of a northern style, and frankly I found them bizarre.
Under 'house coats' on Amazon were plenty of toweling after bath/shower coats (I even have one myself for post-swimming) but now't else.
Traditions come and go. Where would you go these days to see a housewife scrubbing her front doorstep wearing a house coat?
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