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Do you wear a pinny

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From being a little girl I always had to wear a pinny.  In fact I still have my favourite one that was given to me by my aunty it has holes in it, is pretty faded and of course is far too small.  It is sentimental really but I just cannot let it go at the moment. Mum also had me wearing a pinny.  All the ladies in our family wore pinnies when they were cooking.  Indeed my Great Auntie used to make everyone a pinny as part of their Christmas presents.  I still have some that she made for my mum. At my first senior school in Peterborough, the girls all had to make an overall pinny to wear in the cooking class.  Peterborough schools at that time were teaching the new syllabus (not secondary modern syllabus) where we were taught a lot of stuff that my father classed as complete and utter nonsense. Then when I went on to my final secondary school and did Domestic Science lessons as they were called then all the girls were expected to wear a white pi...