Smocking

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Adorable younger girls dresses in styles... This pretty smock dress is ideal for energetic tots and allows you to work on your shirring and embroidery skills...

Valentino s/s 2012 couture

Ivory pleated blouse with a V-shaped smocked bib at the bustline front, back, and shoulder caps. High necked self-ruffled released pleat collar with interior braid, peplum waistband, set in Elizabethan shaped sleeves with graduated puffs stitched down by narrow rows of smocking stitches; with silk gauze cuff ruffle and self covered flat buttons with figure eight loop closures down the center front. Labeled: "Liberty & Co./Artistic and Historic Costume Studio/222 Regent St. W." Labeled…

Unique, hand crafted smocks and dresses designed by Innika.

Smocking was a part of traditional dress long before it became associated with clothes for children. However, as a way of expressing devotion through hand sewing, smocking patterns like these remai…

Lately, I’ve become obsessed with smocking. Not the old school style, but newer approaches.

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When you think of smocking, if you're like me, you think of this: This is from the mid-1890s, and it's Liberty of London! Or, perhaps you think of this: Or, you might even think of this: Bottega Veneta I must say I love this pink dress. Smocking is an interesting way to add elasticity to a garment, especially back in the days before rubber & elastic. For me, just another ingenious technique humans came up with to solve problems. I learned a bit about smocking when I lived in Abu Dhabi. The…