As a passionate home cook but admittedly lazy person, aprons have always felt like an afterthought. Frying tofu? Simmering a red sauce? The best apron subs, it seemed, were just my “whatever ...

I wear an apron nearly every ... there’s also cross-back and smock styles). Colin Wyatt, executive chef of Twelve in Portland, ME, uses them in his restaurant kitchen and says they have held ...