{"id":43,"date":"2019-02-25T16:27:14","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T21:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/arx340-alsmith\/?p=43"},"modified":"2019-02-28T14:03:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T19:03:37","slug":"white-apron-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/silk-aprons\/white-apron-3\/","title":{"rendered":"White Cotton Apron 1890-1915"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This plain weave apron is quite dainty and has intricate lace detail on the bottom which adds some style and interest to the common maid\u2019s apron. Maid or servants dress would have been quite simple, so this small detail would have helped her to stand out, especially when she was serving the family or guests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This apron may have even been worn by a servant who did primarily work upstairs, who was often in view of guests who aimed to judge the household\u2019s wealth. Servants who worked doing more menial tasks would not have had such good quality aprons and may have only used a cloth. A maid\u2019s appearance was a marker of her own class status but if she had wealthy enough employers, they may supply her with nicer aprons which would have symbolized their tastes and ability to spend money on their servants. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Female domestic servants were \u201cdistinguished by their aprons.\u201d Based on the color, style, and fabric, a servant\u2019s role in society could be identified. This had been true for centuries since white aprons, though they often changed slightly, were always markers of the domestic servant class. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Levitt, Sarah. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Victorians Unbuttoned: Registered Designs for Clothing, their Makers and Wearers, 1839-1900. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">London: George Allen &amp; Unwin, 1986, 177.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cunnington, Phillis and Lucas, Catherine. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Occupational Costume in England: From the Eleventh Century to 1914. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">New York: Barnes and Noble Inc., 1967, 377.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">White Cotton Apron, Historic Clothing Collection, Smith College, Northampton, MA. 2011.8.125<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This plain weave apron is quite dainty and has intricate lace detail on the bottom which adds some style and interest to the common maid\u2019s apron. Maid or servants dress would have been quite simple, so this small detail would have helped her to stand out, especially when she was serving the family or guests. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2377,"featured_media":44,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/silk-aprons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/silk-aprons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/silk-aprons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/silk-aprons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/silk-aprons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/silk-aprons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/silk-aprons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/silk-aprons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/silk-aprons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/silk-aprons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/silk-aprons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}