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How to wear the masonic apron?

How should we wear the apron?

  • On-top of the coat/jacket

    Votes: 148 85.1%
  • Underneth the coat/jacket

    Votes: 12 6.9%
  • It does not matter!

    Votes: 14 8.0%

  • Total voters
    174

Benjamin Baxter

Moderator
Premium Member
I would certainly wear it the way the grand lodge wants it worn.:thumbup:

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Brother_Steve

Premium Member
In nj we wear it outside the coat.

It is in my opinion symbolic of protecting the wearer duing operative masonry. An apron doesnt do well protection wise if it is under the jacket.
 

Starr

Registered User
I still like the Irish way out of all of the answers why it should be one way or another. If you really go to work you don't wear a jacket you take it off. I know we normally did in the Army when able.


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KTemplar32

Registered User
The correct way to wear your apron is the way that you were taught to wear it when you were raised. At my lodge Hiram #1 in New Haven Connecticut we wear are aprons on the inside of our coat just as our colonial brothers did. We are a lodge that was founded by general David Wooster in 1750.



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dfreybur

Premium Member
So that's where the "Knife and Fork Degree" comes in?

For a couple of years we lived near Seattle. I affiliated with a GLofWA lodge for those years. At refreshment after a third degree they would recite a "Knife and Fork Degree" or "Third and a Half Degree". Of course it was not a degree of any sort just a local tradition done by some lodges in that region. And it was done after closing to not be a part of the sanctioned ritual and thus not in conflict with it (note difference of how lodges near Houston did their Chamber of Reflection wrong). Very fun talk.

On the wall in some lodges I've visited I've seen a framed apron on the wall with a knife and fork in the place of the compasses. This local tradition might have been much wider in the past than it is now.
 

Roy Vance

Certified
Premium Member
For a couple of years we lived near Seattle. I affiliated with a GLofWA lodge for those years. At refreshment after a third degree they would recite a "Knife and Fork Degree" or "Third and a Half Degree". Of course it was not a degree of any sort just a local tradition done by some lodges in that region. And it was done after closing to not be a part of the sanctioned ritual and thus not in conflict with it (note difference of how lodges near Houston did their Chamber of Reflection wrong). Very fun talk.

On the wall in some lodges I've visited I've seen a framed apron on the wall with a knife and fork in the place of the compasses. This local tradition might have been much wider in the past than it is now.

I had seen lapel pins with the knife and fork and other things regarding such, but my comment was in reference to the cartoon that was posted with the Brother wearing his apron like a baby bib and having a knife and fork in his hands. I thought it was pretty hilarious. That being said, it might be interesting to watch one of the "Knife and Fork" degrees.
 

dfreybur

Premium Member
The term "knife and fork Mason" has been around forever. Consider that when modern GL Masonry was founded in London in 1717 the main goal was to arrange for an annual grand banquet. Plenty of brothers are here for the fellowship and social activities and they at times get called knife and fork Masons. To me all of the references to knife and fork make sense including how they get treated as humor. Philosophical conversations do happen over meals.

One time I was sitting in the dining hall at my SR valley. A new brother asked the white hat across from us how he earned his white hat. The senior brother said you can earn a white hat by walking on the moon or working 20 years in the kitchen. He said he'd earned his working in the kitchen. I laughed because the brother had been MWGM a few years before and he was so eminent within the state the annual Mason of the Year award is now named after him. But with all that he had literally earned his hat serving in the kitchen for 20+ years and he was still cooking. He also happened to earn his hat a dozen other ways as well. With all that when in that dining hall he had identified himself as a knife and fork Mason. Sometimes humor runs very deep.
 

Joshua71

Grand Standard Bearer GL of Alberta, PM Lodge #195
Premium Member
Likewise, I was instructed to wear it on the outside as well.


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Zack

Registered User
Under the jacket unless the jacket is buttoned or when wearing a double-breasted jacket then it is worn outside.
 
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