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The Hidden History of the Smock Frock (Paperback)
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The Hidden History of the Smock Frock (Paperback)
Series: Fashion: Visual & Material Interconnections
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Winner of the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year
Award, 2022 Traditionally associated with rural ways of life in
England, often hand-crafted and held up as one of the only items of
English folk dress to survive into the 20th century, the smock
frock is an object of curiosity in many museum collections. Drawing
on a wide variety of sources from surviving garments to newspapers
and photographs, this book reveals the hidden history of the smock
frock to present new social histories. Discussing the smock frock
in its widest contexts, Alison Toplis explores how garments were
handmade and manufactured by the ready-made clothing industry, and
bought by men of different trades. She traces the smock frock’s
usage across England as well as in export markets such as
Australia. Following the garment’s decline in the late 19th
century, the book investigates how this essentially utilitarian
style of workwear came to be held up as an example of disappearing
‘peasant’ craft in an emotional response to urbanisation, and
how it was preserved by collectors under the influence of the Arts
and Crafts movement. Around the turn of the 20th century, the smock
frock was reinvented as both women’s and children’s wear and is
now regularly revived in fashion collections by the likes of Molly
Goddard. Drawing together extensive visual and material cultures,
Alison Toplis unravels a new history of the smock frock.
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