Like several Bad Crafts I have featured, a dish soap apron is something that my grandmother had in her house, which I had completely forgotten about until I started browsing the internet looking for bad crafts. My grandmother was not particularly crafty herself, but she had a lot of crafty relatives, and she never knew when one of them would be stopping by, so she had a lot of these weird crafts on display in her house in case the crafter came over.
Dish soap bottle aprons are one of those crafts that raise more questions than they answer. My grandmother had one which had been crocheted out of burnt orange acrylic yarn (presumably in the 70s). You can also find aprons made by sewing actual fabric, which - I humbly submit - have much greater potential to look cute than the crocheted versions.
The idea behind dish soap aprons is that they add a little bit of flair to your kitchen, look cute (as most miniature versions of larger things do), and help disguise the otherwise unattractive manufacturer's label.
The first thing we have to address is the "visual clutter" aspect. Not everything in a house has to be decorated. In fact, decorating a dish soap bottle only calls attention to the bottle. If you wanted to hide its ugliness, you are far better off buying a more attractive dispenser and refilling it from the Dawn bottle.
Furthermore, dish soap aprons actually impair functionality. Should you actually try to use the dish soap, the apron will flap around and try to fall off into the sink and basically make a big mess of things.
And finally, if you want to humanize your dish soap dispenser, why make it female? That's a bit misogynist, don't you think? Where are the dish soap butler outfits? Dish soap tuxedos? Dish soap three-piece suits? Men wash dishes too, you know. Or maybe they would, if you didn't insist on putting a frilly apron on the bottle of dish soap.
Image of naked dish soap bottle courtesy Flickr/CEThompson
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