Women's Kitchen Apron

Women’s apron: what a fitted cut actually changes 👩‍🍳

A straight cut apron is a rectangle that hangs. Standing still, fine. Lean over the hob and it swings away from your body: that gap is where everything that spits gets through. A fitted cut takes the fabric in at the waist and lets it flare again over the hips. The cover follows the movement. At La Salopette®, three pieces: the Dungarees Apron Jean Koë, the Brown Leather Kitchen Apron and the Black Linen Cooking Apron.

Look at the width of the bib before the length. The top is where splashes land, never the hem. Lay the apron flat, measure the bib and compare it with your torso under the arms. Five centimetres short on each side and you will end up cooking at an angle without knowing why.

The neck fastening decides everything 🪢

The fixed neck loop is the most common build fault on aprons. One length, sewn shut, calculated on an average body nobody has: either it sags and the bib drops onto your stomach, or it saws into your neck after an hour. An adjustable fastening, a sliding cord or a buckle, closes that gap in three seconds.

Set it against your torso, not by eye: pull up until the top edge of the bib sits two fingers below your collarbone, then check you can slide two fingers between the strap and your neck. Too low and you have bought half an apron. Knot the waist ties at the front and slide the knot onto your hip: you stop sitting on it, and you can pull it loose one handed when the pan starts smoking.

Grease stains: what holds and what marks 🫒

Oil is not tomato sauce. Grease does not dissolve in water, it settles into the fibre and comes back on drying as a paler ring. A few drops of washing up liquid straight onto the stain, a quarter of an hour to work, and only then the machine. A stained apron never goes in the tumble dryer: heat bakes the grease in, and after that nothing works.

Materials behave differently. Tightly woven denim keeps the drop on the surface long enough for you to grab a cloth. Linen drinks faster but takes frequent washing. Leather is not washed: you wipe it, and it patinates where you rest your hands. And nothing here is waterproof. These aprons stop splashes and rubbing, not a knocked over pan.

Length is the only measurement that counts 📏

The classic mistake is choosing an apron by dress size. An apron has no 10 and no 16, it has a length. Tape measure at the base of your neck, down to the point where you want it to stop: that is the number to compare, and nothing else. Two women in the same jeans size, one long in the body, one long in the leg, do not wear the same apron.

Two reference points: mid thigh if you move a lot, below the knee if you stand at a worktop. What to avoid is a hem landing on the kneecap, it folds every time you bend. For the Dungarees Apron Jean Koë, dungarees before it is an apron, the trouser rule applies: start from your usual trouser size, never from your bust measurement. We run XS to 8XL, and our size guide carries a calculator: height and weight, it returns the size to order. Past XL, the plus size dungarees is cut for it rather than simply scaled up.

Denim, linen, leather: what is in the collection 🧵

• Denim, 280 to 320 GSM: the tight weave takes rubbing and machine washing. 280 is supple from day one, 320 stays stiff for a week then gives.
• Linen: lighter, dries fast and creases on its own. The crease is part of the product.
• Leather: it does not go in the machine. A damp cloth is enough, and it darkens where your hands rest.

Check the flat felled seams at the pull points too, at the top of the straps and where the pockets start. A badly finished pocket gives up before the weave does.

Kitchen, workshop or garden: which one to take 🔥

To see the whole range, go through the kitchen apron. The men's cooking apron uses the same materials with straighter cuts. On service or in a workshop, the professional apron adds the pockets and lengths built for a full day. And if you want your name on it, that is the personalised apron.

An apron does not cover everything. When the legs need protecting too, you are back to women's dungarees or the dungarees dress, and the accessories handle the rest.

Delivery, exchange and care 🚚

We ship from our stock in Miramas, in the south of France, and we pack every order ourselves. On Express Delivery it is 2 to 3 working days within France. If the length does not fall the way you pictured it, the exchange is free within 14 days.

On care we are blunt: 30 °C inside out, no tumble dryer. Heavy cotton moves less than 2 % as long as it never runs hot. A hot drum manages two kinds of damage in one hour: a shorter apron and a grease stain set for good. Take it out damp and hang it by the waist ties, and most of the creasing sorts itself.