It was somewhere outside Barstow when Nate Perkins
wrote:

but I'm not sure why leather would be desirable for the rest of us.

Heavy and soft, so it drapes well. A "flappy" apron is a horrible
thing.

A very cheap leather apron is a welder's apron in pale grey chrome
leather (jackets too). They're hideous leather, but they are very
cheap.

My "good" apron is £20 ($40) of lovely soft suede bought at a
re-enactor fair and an evening's work on trimming it with pockets and
strings. Shame to wear it in the workshop really, but it's a great
"shopkeeper" apron on craft stalls.
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Smert' spamionam