Aprons with pockets
This page collects images of aprons with pockets; there’s another page with pocket aprons.
While aprons with pockets were not universally popular in the 18th century, enough illustrations exist to link them to working-class women – and a few fashionable ladies – in the 1770s and 1780s.
A Merry New Song, from Marcellus Laroon’s Cryes of the City of London Drawne after the Life, 1688
Lady Fashion’s Secretary’s Office, or Peticoat Recommendation the Best, 1772
The Cork Rump, or Chloe’s Cushion, 1776
Pretty dancer with “an apron, also of flowered linen, with trimmed and drawstringed pockets,” Galerie des Modes, 17e Cahier, 6e Figure, 1779
Dummy board: a female street player with a guitar, Great Britain, c. 1780
V&A E.21606-1957, a French fashion plate from the 1780s
The demure Mélite, Gallerie des Modes, 48e Cahier, 42e Figure, 1785
Dorothy Jordan as Peggy Thrift in The Country Wife by Samuel De Wilde
Les Tricoteuses Jacobines, ou de Robespierre, 1793
Peasants from the outskirts of Paris, Costumes de Différent Pays by L. F. Labrousse, c. 1797