As the culinary world distances itself from a boys' club mentality — most recently because of the #MeToo movement — so have kitchen-wear companies like Hedley & Bennett, Tilit and Polka Pants, which design clothes that are both comfortable and stylish. “Offering a women’s XS all the way up to a men’s 4XL was a no-brainer for us,” said Alex McCrery, who founded Tilit with his wife, Jenny Goodman. Ellen Bennett, a founder of Hedley & Bennett, said she created products like her “Big” apron line to fit many body sizes. Known as a dishwasher shirt, the uniform was once solely associated with people who did the dirty work in restaurants: cleaning, hauling and washing. Danny Bowien, the influential chef of Mission Chinese Food in Manhattan and Brooklyn, started wearing dishwasher shirts in the kitchen a decade ago .

Source: New York Times January 10, 2019 15:56 UTC