Of course many women nowadays wear their aprons at home with pride because they are practical, comfortable, and suitable for a huge number of tasks, skills, and forms of creative expression. If anything, the apron is the perfect symbol of domestic feminism, as we like to call it. In her Self Portrait (MOMA Macynlleth), Jenny Jones (b1954) is surrounded by the home comforts which are celebrated in so many of our novels, and wears a fine apron with voluminous pockets.