The Two Aprons Meghan Wears on With Love, Meghan

Watch closely and the aprons in With Love, Meghan are doing more work than you might think. It is tempting to assume the Duchess of Sussex simply has one favourite apron she reaches for, episode after episode, the sort of signature piece a stylist would build a capsule around. She does not. She has (at least) two, and each is chosen for a different kind of day.

One is a waxed canvas apron from The Celtic Farm, worn out in the garden. The other is a denim apron made in collaboration between Finery LA and chef Roy Choi, worn at the stove. Different fabric, different purpose, different scene, and together they say rather a lot about how Meghan wants her Montecito life to look.

Here is the real story of both, and why the show is more interesting for having two.

The Celtic Farm apron: dressed for the garden

The first apron appears in one of the series’ quieter, more outdoorsy moments: Meghan out among the beds, picking blackberries, in an episode that leans hard into the garden-to-table half of her brand. The piece is a Garden apron from The Celtic Farm, an American maker known for waxed cotton canvas workwear built for exactly this kind of task: kneeling, reaching, pocketing secateurs and a trug of fruit without a second thought.

Waxed canvas is the giveaway detail. It is stiffer and more weatherproof than linen, finished with a leather or webbing strap, and designed to age into a patina rather than stay pristine, closer to a Barbour jacket than a tea towel. The Celtic Farm’s aprons typically run somewhere in the £60 to £90 range and come with generous pockets front and back, the kind a genuine gardener actually uses rather than a prop for the cameras.

It is a small but telling wardrobe choice. A flimsier apron would have looked wrong against blackberry brambles; a workwear one signals that the gardening on screen, however photogenic, is meant to read as real.

The Finery LA x Roy Choi apron: dressed for the stove

The second apron belongs entirely indoors. In the episode built around chef Roy Choi (the Korean-American cook and restaurateur behind LA’s Kogi food trucks), Meghan wears a denim apron produced through a collaboration between Finery LA and Choi himself. Finery LA describes itself as an “anti-uniform” brand for hospitality workers, and its Roy Choi piece is a proper working apron: sturdy denim, adjustable straps, made to survive a real kitchen rather than look decorative in one.

The choice matters because of who is standing beside her. Choi is not a lifestyle-brand cameo; he is one of the most influential chefs to come out of Los Angeles’ food-truck movement, and the episode leans into that pedigree, with the two of them cooking spiced, LA-inflected food together. Putting Meghan in his own apron collaboration, rather than a neutral kitchen linen, was a quietly deliberate touch: it treats the guest chef’s world, not just Meghan’s, as the one worth dressing for.

Meet Roy Choi, the chef in the kitchen

Roy Choi built his reputation on Kogi BBQ, the Korean-Mexican taco truck that helped invent the modern American food-truck scene in Los Angeles in 2008, before going on to open restaurants across the city and co-found the LA social-enterprise venture Locol. He and Meghan share Los Angeles roots, and their episode together spends as much time on that shared geography (the food, the neighbourhoods, the music) as it does on any single recipe.

That context is worth knowing, because it explains the apron. A generic kitchen linen would have flattened the moment into “celebrity cooks with chef.” The Finery LA x Roy Choi apron, by contrast, is a piece with Choi’s own name on it, a small, specific nod to a real Los Angeles food culture, worn in his honour rather than despite him.

Two aprons, two moods

Seen side by side, the pair make an elegant case study in dressing for the task rather than the camera. The Celtic Farm apron is earthy, structured and outdoor-hardy, a piece that belongs to soil, secateurs and long afternoons. The Finery LA x Roy Choi apron is urban, denim and kitchen-bright, a piece that belongs to a hot stove and a borrowed chef’s world.

Neither reads as a costume. Both look genuinely lived-in, which is very much the point of With Love, Meghan as a whole: an aesthetic built on the idea that a beautiful life is also a working one. The garden apron gets soil under its nails; the kitchen apron gets a little scorched. That is the difference between styling a scene and simply dressing for it, and the show consistently chooses the latter.

The status apron, explained

Meghan is not alone in this. Fashion and lifestyle writers have spent much of the past year noting the rise of what has been dubbed the “status apron,” a well-made, brand-conscious apron worn as visibly and deliberately as a good coat, rather than tucked away in a kitchen drawer. Aprons from small workwear and chef-collaboration labels have become a minor phenomenon in their own right, discussed and shopped in the same breath as the cookware around them.

With Love, Meghan sits near the centre of that trend, not because it invented it but because the show treats aprons as wardrobe rather than uniform: worth naming, worth choosing carefully, worth varying by task. Across the series, eagle-eyed viewers have spotted several different aprons in Meghan’s rotation beyond these two, each suited to its own moment. The Celtic Farm and Finery LA x Roy Choi pieces simply happen to be the two attached to the most memorable scenes: a garden harvest and a guest-chef collaboration.

Bringing the look home

Recreating either apron is refreshingly achievable, since neither is a couture prop. For the garden, look for waxed cotton canvas with a reinforced strap and real pockets. The Celtic Farm’s own range is the obvious starting point, though British makers such as Barbour and various independent workwear studios make comparable pieces suited to a damp English border. For the stove, a sturdy denim or heavyweight cotton apron from a chef-founded or hospitality-focused label gives the same energy as the Finery LA collaboration, without needing the exact piece.

The broader lesson travels well beyond aprons: choose kit for the job it actually has to do, in a material that will improve with use rather than simply look nice in a photograph. A good apron, like a good coat, only gets better with a few genuine stains.

Why two aprons say more than one

It would have been easy, and far less interesting, for the show to settle on a single “signature” apron and repeat it scene after scene for visual consistency. That two entirely different aprons turn up instead, each matched precisely to its task and its company, says something rather charming about the way With Love, Meghan approaches its own aesthetic: with more attention than a casual viewer might expect.

For more from inside her Montecito kitchen, our companion piece on the homeware from With Love, Meghan rounds up the cookware and finishing touches that appear alongside these two aprons. Browse more of our British Living stories for the homely side of royal-adjacent life, on both sides of the Atlantic.

Frequently asked questions

Does Meghan Markle wear the same apron in every episode of With Love, Meghan?

No. She wears several different aprons across the series, chosen to suit the scene. The two most talked-about are a Celtic Farm waxed canvas apron worn while gardening and a Finery LA x Roy Choi apron worn while cooking with guest chef Roy Choi.

What apron does Meghan Markle wear in the garden on With Love, Meghan?

She wears a Garden apron from The Celtic Farm, made from waxed cotton canvas with leather-trimmed straps and multiple pockets, while picking blackberries in one of the show’s outdoor episodes.

What apron does Meghan Markle wear while cooking with Roy Choi?

She wears a denim apron from Finery LA’s collaboration with chef Roy Choi, created specifically with the Los Angeles chef, during the episode built around his guest appearance.

Who is Roy Choi and why does he appear on With Love, Meghan?

Roy Choi is the Korean-American chef and restaurateur behind LA’s pioneering Kogi BBQ food truck and the Locol restaurant venture. He appears as a guest chef, cooking Korean-inflected Los Angeles food alongside Meghan and sharing memories of the city they both call home.

Where can I buy a Celtic Farm apron like Meghan’s?

The Celtic Farm sells its waxed cotton canvas garden aprons directly, typically in the £60 to £90 range, along with comparable pieces from other workwear and outdoor makers.

Is the Finery LA x Roy Choi apron still available to buy?

Availability of chef-collaboration pieces such as this one changes with stock and demand; check Finery LA’s own channels for the current range, as specific collaboration items are often produced in limited runs.

Why do people call these “status aprons”?

The term describes a recent trend for well-made, brand-conscious aprons worn visibly as part of a considered kitchen or garden wardrobe, rather than hidden away as purely functional kit, a trend With Love, Meghan has been widely credited with popularising.

Details are correct as of 2026 based on episodes and retailer listings for The Celtic Farm and Finery LA; stock, pricing and availability change, so check each retailer for the current range.