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 ...

Think of restaurant St John, for example, where blue striped aprons and whites are as integral as the plates of roasted bone marrow to the overall ethos, or the white jackets worn by bar staff at the ...