Hi,
Yes, the farmers smock frocks. That a woman's shift is also called a smock
makes it a bit hard to research on the web. I've requested the Alice Armes
book, another book by Beverly Marshall that says it has some history, the
shire book, and "A Surrey smock: in the Weybridge Museum collection". The
last three are in aux stacks so i won't get them for a bit.
I was thinking of doing some regency era events over the next year and of
using a smock as a lightwieght coat.
Susan
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From: <annbw...@aol.com>
To: <h-cost...@indra.com>
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2015 2:54 AM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Who's still here? & smock question
You mean the farmer's big overshirt, right? (I ask because "smock" was
also used as a term for a woman's shift or chemise, at least in parts of
England. Read about smock races sometime.) Do you have the Shire album on
the subject?
Also try "Dress of the People." I suspect the answer to your question,
though, is probably not, but next to impossible to ferret out. If women
did, they were probably rural residents doing hard work on farms, and,
unless there is a stray traveler's account somewhere, unlikely to be
recorded.
Ann Wass
-----Original Message-----
From: Susan <scour...@nwlink.com>
To: Historical Costume <h-cost...@indra.com>
Sent: Fri, Dec 18, 2015 12:10 am
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Who's still here? & smock question
Hi all,
I'm still here. I get fed up with facebook, and rarely with email lists,
so
happy to see people.
Since you're all here ... I've just gotten interested in english smocks
(18th - 19th c ones) and was debating making one. I've requested a bunch
of
books from the library, and this question might be answered in one of
them.
But ...
Did women wear the traditional smocks? in any era?
thanks, Susan c (in seattle)
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