Maedare (also 'Maedara' in Edo dialect), sometimes known as Maekake, was a cloth worn by shop workers or housemaids to protect their clothes from dirt, which hangs from an obi, a kind of belt for a kimono.
前垂れ（まえだれ、江戸方言では「まえだら」とも）もしくは前掛け（まえかけ）は、商家にはたらく人や女中などが衣服に汚れがつかないよう、帯から下に掛ける布のこと。