“I feel like every woman who likes cooking has been given a stack of cutesy vintage aprons with frills,” Heather Cahill, the general manager Pizzeria Beddia in Philly, told me recently. “But man, give ...

Over a decade ago, before I met my chef husband, I thought all aprons were alike — simply a piece of fabric built to shield your body from the inevitable spatter of cooking, and far superior with ...