Work aprons

I wear one most of the time.  I have two of them.  One leather one for when I am using the lathe, and one I wear while doing flat work.  I find the front pockets fill up with saw dust pretty quickly.  My wife told me I had to because I was getting glue or finish on all my T-shirts.

I wear a turning smock most of the time.  Pockets are on the back like a bike jersey.  Also, tight to the neck to keep chips out.  I wear them for all shop operations unless its really hot.  I have some designated grubby t-shirts for those days.

I don't care for aprons because they generally hang around the next.  I would rather they are more like suspenders.  They also don't keep chips out of my neck.

Only exception is when I hand carve.  I have a carving apron with a leather front and a pouch to hold tools and collect chips.

I wear an apron frequently when in the shop. I do not like the ones that hang around your neck. I prefer the ones that hang over your shoulders. My favorite is one from the Woodsmith Store. It is not real long and fits my short body well. I cut off the neck strap and add a pair of snap on suspenders. Works for me. Ron

I've got two of them: a conventional on as shown above and a smock-style as popularized by Richard Raffan. Problem is that I forget to put either one on before I'm coated in dust and chips.

I have 3, a pocketless one that I wear for milling, sanding, and finishing. A pocketed one I bought years ago from Highland and another my sister made for me.
I don't do a lot of fine ww'n  that I need to wear the ones with pockets but they are a good place to store mostly marking tools

I wear a stiff leather pouch with several pockets (kind of like a nail apron) that hold my go-to tools: a 6" sliding square, a 10' tape measure, a mechanical pencil and a marking knife. I wear a pull-over nylon windbreaker for turning.

Leather apron for blacksmithing, half to prevent burning through a shirt if something orange flies. the orange stuff doesn't burn a person so much as it hits a decent shirt and burns the fibers enough that they just come apart if you pull on them. 

The other half is in case anything metal - hammer part or corner of an anvil - flies. 

Sometimes a kind of lab coat thing for grinding steel - not for protection so much as to avoid getting metal dust in clothes, which ends up going through the washer and ending up in the drain. it both stains the sink bottom when the sink dries out and it rusts, and also ends up building up in the drain line, forcing me to remove it mechanically. 

For woodworking, no. aprons get caught on tool handles in vigorous hand tool work. It's a pain.