How To Use Smock In A Sentence
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They emerge, as they have again this year, as the flower buds of garlic mustard and of lady's smock appear.
Times, Sunday Times
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Further down, below the moor, the laneside verge was bright with lady's-smock, the so-called cuckooflower that blooms when the first cuckoo calls.
Country Diary: North Derbyshire
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The stream cut clean through my smock, apron, coveralls, and my jeans.
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A loose, launderable sweater or sweatshirt that lets you move but can go under your smock is another useful item to have in your cleaning closet.
HOME COMFORTS
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Mr Blair was wearing a black and blue T-shirt, jeans and training shoes, while his wife was dressed for the heat in multi-coloured patterned trousers, a white smock and trainers.
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For dressier occasions there were jewelled lace-up boots and velvet smocks.
Times, Sunday Times
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Plants are greater stitchwort, bluebell, devils bit scabious, Himalayan balsam, ragged robin, marsh marigold, quaking grass and lady's smock.
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Dressed in short smocks and wide hats, they move in unison through the hay, practicing labor as ballet.
Crosscut
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The interior is a delight, a beamed, strawed, trestle-tabled, dimly lit farmhouse attended to by waiters in sashed smocks.
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The voice and face of his dearest friend and advisor vanished, and Roy proceeded to remove his paint-bedaubed smock and brush his hair, so as to present a somewhat better appearance when the professor arrived.
"The Golden Girl of Munan" by Harl Vincent, part 1
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The difficulty of adapting counterchange designs for patterns that were designed for pleater smocking is that your ratio of fabric to pleats is reduced.
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A more delicate flower of riversides and damp meadows is lady's smock or cuckoo flower, with both names equally common.
Times, Sunday Times
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I can find only smock dresses in the shops.
Times, Sunday Times
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His soft leather boots were caked with mud as he pulled them off, and his new canvas smock and pants were heavy with rain.
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It hadn't even occurred to me that he might be in the shooting party, but here he came, strolling across, and behind him a great burly unmistakable moujik, in smock and boots, carrying his pouches.
Fiancée
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I, too, think on Hobbes every time the word smock pops up. smocksmocksmock.
Painterly Fashion
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Guess the "smocking" is a critical attribute for me, huh?
Dress-Buying Behavior of Consumers - A Dress A Day
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It seems possible that the series of mouthless, mask-like self-portraits in which Dali poses in a blue smock, undertaken beginning in 1923, might be based on African tribal sculpture.
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In Metropolis, Fritz Lang had the office as an urban dystopia with workers shuffling about in smocks with bowed heads, sedated by repetition.
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The best book that I have found for readability on the subject, and without losing me along the way with uber-florid prose about artists in smocks, mixing cerulean blue pigment on their paint spattered pallets as the fisherman hauled in pilchards at their feet, is The Shining Sands Artists in Newlyn and St Ives 1880-1930 by Tom Cross.
A day in Cornwall
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The transition from a drover to a Carmelite is not in the least violent; the one turns into the other without much effort; the fund of ignorance common to the village and the cloister is a preparation ready at hand, and places the boor at once on the same footing as the monk: a little more amplitude in the smock, and it becomes a frock.
Les Miserables
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There are everyday photos in the style of Frank Meadows Sutcliffe of fishermen and their womenfolk, and examples of the smocks and oilskins worn by them.
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From an early age, I believed that when you died, you put on a white satin smock with lace around the cuffs and joined the anonymous army of souls (in heaven if you were lucky).
Dia de los Muertos: the dead come to life in Mexican folk art
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[quote = "eejit"] in my smock ive got trauma kit top left, compass and maglite top right, matches/lighter in chest. the rest left empty. (notepad, pens etc in combats.)
Army Rumour Service
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Though attired in this barbarous guise, I did not, of course, dispense with my trousers, which, being black, contrasted somewhat oddly with my primrose-coloured ki ton, as they call the smock, and the dark violet clamis, or plaid.
In the Wrong Paradise
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She looked hopeful and imploring in her little blue smock, and I felt sorry for her.
Christianity Today
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I am not able to iron the upper part of the sleeve on this one, so I just leave it wrinkled and it looks like smocking.
Women's Dresses in Marcus Stone's Paintings (1840-1921)
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The girls were all in simple woollen dresses and white linen smocks, their hair tied mostly in ponytails.
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Gone are the days of chambermaids wearing black smocks, frilly white aprons and lace caps.
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There were no smock-frocks, even among the country folk; they retarded motion, and were apt to catch on machinery, and so the habit of wearing them had died out.
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Yet he never knew of the hair-cloth smock, the discipline, the cord and sack-cloth that lay stored in the large carved awmry, and were secretly in use on every fast or vigil, not with any notion of merit, but of simple obedience, and with even deeper comprehension and enjoyment of their spiritual significance, of which, in her cloister life, she had comprehended little.
The Chaplet of Pearls
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My wife very hystericky and forever in a smock and declareth she would be dead and married life a delusion, the which opinion I take small issue with having my hands full of business and Lasselle forever at my heels with our affair of the mine not to speak of H. Nevil which waileth continually over how he was caught short in the month of June.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.)
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One which was marshy was white for weeks together with the lady's-smock or cuckoo-flower.
Round About a Great Estate
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Behind plastic curtain-strip doors, workers in hairnets, smocks and surgical masks move with assembly-line efficiency in the 40-degree Fahrenheit room warm temperature affects the caviar's taste separating eggs from ovary, then washing, salting and tinning the caviar.
The Great California Caviar Rush
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Over this hangs my smock, of a fine white silk gauze, edged with embroidery.
A BOOK OF LANDS AND PEOPLES
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Because the smocking is done as an insert rather than at the top of the skirt front piece, the skirt length will need to be shortened.
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A There is a glut of smock dresses for summer.
Times, Sunday Times
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He also popularized tight pants, the trapeze dress, smocks , thigh - high boots and tuxedo jackets.
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She always had on a brown cotton smock which was pinched in around the waist with a wide leather belt.
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I was allowed to attend the ceremony, to which I wore a beautiful pair of bottle-green velvet short trousers which Mum sewed for me, a pair of fire-engine red patent leather buckled shoes, white socks, and a little white shirt with smocking and a frilly round collar, extremely smart.
Archive 2009-03-01
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Grow caterpillar food-plants, including nettles, buckthorn, hops and lady's smock.
Times, Sunday Times
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This season's collections are full of Surrealist touches that make an imaginative change from the dreary crop of smock dresses on the high street.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was snapped in New York in a blue smock roomy enough to fit four of her inside it.
The Sun
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This pale flower, and that with the green flowers and the great leaves, are lady's-smock and lady's-mantle; they say they are named after the
Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes
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Birdalone lay still a little, lest she should fall into a trap, and then arose very quietly and did on her smock, which lay ever under her pillow with the ring sewn thereto again, and so went out adoors also, and deemed she saw the witch some way on ahead; but it was nothing for her light feet to overtake her.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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Look in the pattern books for suitable patterns or see ‘Sources’ at the end of this article for companies selling a variety of patterns for children's smocked clothing.
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My 'lawn' contains at least bugloss, buttercup, celandine, clover, cowslip, dandelion, daisy, lady's smock, plantain and speedwell.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lady's smock likes low-lying meadows and the edge of marshes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Bizarre bazaar: The classic and 21st-century head shop gear included a $500 sterling-silver, ruby-and-sapphire-studded belt buckle engraved with Jerry Garcia's image; tie-dyed Bill Blass Jeans-label smocks, $50; hemp wallets, $14; and packs of Zig-Zag rolling papers, $2.
Expecting Rain
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We were wearing white smocks or doctors 'coats and they let all these bees go out of these hives, thousands of them.
Michael Caine Reflects On His 'Hollywood' Career
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Katarinka changed into her old smock in a flutter of fabric, leaving her new one in her mother's lap as she whirled out the door.
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Some liberated lawns will surprise you with a flush of lady's smock, tall meadow buttercups, ox-eye daisies and even orchids.
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I found a pretty Laura Ashley jumper with smocking today at Goodwill!
Smocked Summer Dress
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If you've ever looked carefully at your cellphone contract, you may discover that you get 37 anytime minutes, 123 afternoon minutes, 93 double secret minutes and 19 bonus minutes if you can use the words "creosote" and "smock" in casual conversation.
Mutual fund fees add up, so don't pay more than you must
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Key pieces include smock dresses and cropped jeans.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Evening Press reported the 39-year-old kept all his worldly possessions on the back seat, shaved in the rear-view mirror, and bedded down on the driver's seat every night wrapped in a waterproof smock.
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She always had on a brown cotton smock which was pinched in around the waist with a wide leather belt.
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Sexy smocked dresses, ruching detail and layers of sun-faded cotton result in a trend that's deliciously nostalgic.
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They often grow in the grass along with the pink cuckoo flowers, known also as lady's smock or milkmaids.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hands up those already mourning the predicted end of the smock dress?
Times, Sunday Times
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They often grow in the grass along with the pink cuckoo flowers, known also as lady's smock or milkmaids.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pale-pink lady's smock, just coming, and its pretty double form.
Times, Sunday Times
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And no mention of the broderie anglaise smock, or the ultralow-riding jeans.
Times, Sunday Times
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It contained a leaf of lady's-smock, a mussel-shell, and two fish-bones.
The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country
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Dowsabell went forth to gather honeysuckle and lady's-smock nearly three centuries since.
Round About a Great Estate
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I did see that you started a thread about maternity wear elsewhere and I was going to reply to say that I know exactly what you meant about tight leggings and maternity smocks.
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You'll also find new baby sailor hats, baby sailor berets, baby sun bonnets, smocked bonnets for babies, and beautiful christening bonnets and christening hats.
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It had begun to drizzle, as it so often does during the winter in Northern France, and this man wore a bedrabbled cloak -- a brigandish-looking cloak -- over his blue smock.
Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier
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A young woman wearing a high-collared lab smock entered.
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Smocks were formerly worn by farm workers.
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Honey derived from cruciferous plants, such as rape, ladies 'smock, and the wallflower, crystallizes quickly, often, indeed, within the comb before it is removed from the hive; whilst Honey from labiate plants, and from fruit trees in general, remains unchanged for several months after being extracted from the comb.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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Frozen solid in her smocked white dress, Dorothy realised she wasn't in Kansas anymore.
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The school dental service began in 1921-two years later the first dental nurses, dressed in white smocks and veils, marched into schools in Hawke's Bay.
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The children are dressed in black smocks with white collars and taken to school with pomp and ceremony.
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But amongst the trinkets, including a $500 sterling-silver, ruby-and-sapphire-studded belt buckle engraved with Jerry Garcia's image, $50 tie-dyed Bill Blass Jeans-label smocks, $14 hemp wallets and packs of $2 Zig-Zag rolling papers are a range of lavish books produced by
Macworld UK News
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A woman in a grey smock goes round polishing each glass cover after it's been kissed.
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Because the smocking is done as an insert rather than at the top of the skirt front piece, the skirt length will need to be shortened.
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Furry, yellow dung flies skirt through the herbage, passing bedstraws and lady's smock; it is mostly in bud, but a few fingernail-sized pink gowns are on show.
Country diary: Northamptonshire
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Ploughmen in clean smock-frocks yoke themselves with ropes to the plough, ribbons and bunches of corn in their hats.
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Andrea was wearing a cheesecloth smock and agonizing over whether to eat a salt and vinegar crisp.
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Sometimes a little elastic smocking or an obilike sash can camouflage a tummy.
Oh No She Didn’t
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Bassist Chris Squire - wearing a flouncy black smock over skin-tight Lycra leggings tucked into Doc Marten boots - was having more of a ball than most.
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The stitchers display dazzling skill and finesse, creating textured surfaces of petit point, needlepoint, beading, embroidery, appliqué, smocking and macramé.
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Alberta Ferretti's romantic, smocked silk blouses and Greek maiden gowns were delightfully soft, as was Consuelo Castiglioni's Marni collection.
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The meadows support a range of grasses and plants including the lilac-coloured blooms of cuckooflower or lady's smock.
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The company has continued to add full and bib apron styles and colors, and it has expanded its line, and introduced a new poplin smock.
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Scallop-edged eyelet and smocking provide a summery look, regardless of the season.
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She was pretty and young, in a loose smocked sundress.
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“I call it doosid stale old rappee,” says Mr. Brummell — (as for me I declare I could not smell anything at all in either of the boxes.) “Old boy in smock-frock, take a pinch?”
Roundabout Papers
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A more delicate flower of riversides and damp meadows is lady's smock or cuckoo flower, with both names equally common.
Times, Sunday Times
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I can find only smock dresses in the shops.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pleats create a weird-looking smock effect, appealing to the adventurous with a touch of fashion victim in them.
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A belt is generally worn, into which the folds of the smock can be drawn up or "kilted," when the wearer wishes to have his limbs free for active exercise.
In the Wrong Paradise
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The principal garment is the Soudanic cotton frock, smock-frock, or blouse, sometimes called tobe, with short and wide open sleeves, and wide body reaching below the knee.
Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
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And I do remember the white smock and black leggings.
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For little ladies there are pretty dresses, smock tops and leggings.
The Sun
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First is the sheer babydoll, which is a million miles from the smock-like tops which for so long were a mainstay of Second Life fashion, and hearkens back to the babydoll's roots as lingerie.
World of SL
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The girl, who answered to ‘Lee’, looked positively hippie in her black corduroy bell-bottoms and paisley smock with flare-sleeves.
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Some were, as usual, in snow-white smock-frocks of Russia duck, and some in whitey-brown ones of drabbet -- marked on the wrists, breasts, backs, and sleeves with honeycomb-work.
Far from the Madding Crowd
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The sleeves flirt with flared puffs and completely slit up, ruffled and smocked sleeves.
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Cap sleeves and a smock blouse look great with a waistcoat and teamed with a loose, lightweight scarf.
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Supplying everything for boys and girls from newborn up to four years, the traditional little boys' romper suits and hand-smocked dresses for little girls are perennial favourites.
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As they approached, the blast doors opened, revealing a diminutive figure clothed in a heavy, light blue smock.
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Warehouse have smock dresses to team with leggings.
The Sun
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As he stood at the door, a tall young stripling, dressed in what they call a smock frock, with a pitchfork in his hand, came up and, taking his station a little on one side, began to view him from head to foot, scratching his head and grinning.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810
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Have the kids wear old clothes or provide large plastic bags with holes cut in the bottom and sides so they can slip over heads and arms for a protective smock.
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There are everyday photos in the style of Frank Meadows Sutcliffe of fishermen and their womenfolk, and examples of the smocks and oilskins worn by them.
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There was also a table with knives and surgical instruments, a dentist's chair, and several white smocks hanging up on a wall.
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The girl, who answered to ‘Lee’, looked positively hippie in her black corduroy bell-bottoms and paisley smock with flare-sleeves.
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Dowsabell went forth to gather honeysuckle and lady's-smock nearly three centuries since.
Round About a Great Estate
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He still wore the bloodstained smock in which he had been arrested.
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Key pieces include smock dresses and cropped jeans.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Pentagon has now said that it allows Bradley Manning to wear a garment at night, which his lawyer described as a smock.
Bradley Manning's father speaks out over Pentagon's treatment of his son
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I am taken into another room and a careworn man in a reassuringly green smock and matching trousers comes in to inspect the thigh.
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From the tow which had been hatchelled out from harl a coarse thread was spun and cloth was woven which was made chiefly into shirts and smocks.
Home Life in Colonial Days
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He wore a smock, gardening gloves, and a pair of half-moon glasses with a smudge of mud on them.
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Some were, as usual, in snow-white smock-frocks of Russia duck, and some in whitey-brown ones of drabbet — marked on the wrists, breasts, backs, and sleeves with honeycomb-work.
Far from the Madding Crowd
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Grow caterpillar food-plants, including nettles, buckthorn, hops and lady's smock.
Times, Sunday Times
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First it was the lilac crowds of lady's smock, which brought with them the orange-tip butterfly.
Times, Sunday Times
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Social sciences Do smocking reduce the dippression? smocking is a sedative which can actually deepen dippression what's "smocking"? what's a "dippression"?
Answerbag: Latest Questions in Question Categories
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Warehouse have smock dresses to team with leggings.
The Sun
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She was snapped in New York in a blue smock roomy enough to fit four of her inside it.
The Sun
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Key pieces include smock dresses and cropped jeans.
Times, Sunday Times
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Girls returning from the maize fields, in their red gowns, white smock-frocks, and yellow or red headkerchiefs, stroll through the meadows like moving flowers.
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This season's collections are full of Surrealist touches that make an imaginative change from the dreary crop of smock dresses on the high street.
Times, Sunday Times
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She learned to sew and made maternity smocks he tried to admire.
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A small figure in a torn but clean smock and stained kilt crept out from under the haywagon.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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Below her waist, the fabric of her smock filled with the black clots of her hemorrhage.
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With a smock artfully covering his paunchy frame, Pavarotti, 56, burst into golden-toned song.
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A short, plump man in a heavy smock over a dark jacket, sat in a one horse chaise and raised his hat.
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She wore a flowered smock, and her spectacles hung round her neck on a cord.
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7 weeks to go and I can wear a nightdress and my lovely Italian turquoise trousers and smock top.
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And they came in and we suddenly noticed that our white smocks sort of started to get a very, very pale brown mist very, very pale (unintelligible).
Michael Caine Reflects On His 'Hollywood' Career
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She always had on a brown cotton smock which was pinched in around the waist with a wide leather belt.
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So I got myself togged up in the required fisherman's smock, with those handy pockets for putting things in.
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So he exchanged his football boots for an artist's smock and threw himself wholeheartedly into painting.
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But what concerned me was their daughter, now free of her velvet cape and revealed in a white cotton dress smocked in unfunereal red.
A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
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First it was the lilac crowds of lady's smock, which brought with them the orange-tip butterfly.
Times, Sunday Times
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His clothes were a blue smock that must have been designated for volunteers.
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A pleater dowel is a device used by smockers to feed fabric through a pleater.
Bend Blogs
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The earliest bathing suit in modern history consisted of an old outfit of clothes, then it was a smock resembling a kind of ‘bathing gown’.
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My 'lawn' contains at least bugloss, buttercup, celandine, clover, cowslip, dandelion, daisy, lady's smock, plantain and speedwell.
Times, Sunday Times
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The natives are a leathery, insouciant people; well-heeled women in suggestive topcloths parade around the avenues like so many cockled peacocks, and the men are as manicured as the Egyptians, a tribe of smellsmocks and pinchfarthings jockeying for attention.
I search the horizon...
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Big smocks, lacy cardigans and wide trousers were the backbone of a collection that carried echoes of high-school uniforms and American small-town culture.
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Throwing the used smocks laundry basket , the nurses hurried out, carrying us in their arms.
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She would turn up at school in yellow skinny rib jumpers, Oxford bags, two tone stack heeled clogs, smock coats and the like.
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For little ladies there are pretty dresses, smock tops and leggings.
The Sun
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Smocks or smock-frocks were the traditional garb of country labourers and agricultural workers in the eighteenth century, dating back to much earlier times, and remaining popular in some areas well into the nineteenth century.
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This pale flower, and that with the green flowers and the great leaves, are lady's-smock and lady's-mantle; they say they are named after the
Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes
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No soldier, who has been reduced to his coatee in a campaign, but must have sighed after his original smock-frock, or any other outer covering that had at least some pretensions to being useful.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846
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If memory serves me correctly, the old guys with their smocks and T square used to expose their blueprints in the sun.
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Probably it is the sting from not getting that smock, which is entirely understandable.
This Just In: Plugs and Deliberations
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Smocks were formerly worn by farm workers.
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On weekdays he wore a smock-frock, which he called his surplice, with wonderful fancy stitches on the breast and back and sleeves.
The Parish Clerk
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Women generally wear a loose, scoop-necked smock over a long skirt made by a wrap-around piece of cloth.
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He wore a sort of smock-pullover, badly stained, and great flapping brown corduroys above suede chukka boots.
WHISTLER IN THE DARK
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It contained a leaf of lady's-smock, a mussel-shell, and two fish-bones.
The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country
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By “Indian dress” he meant costume common to whites as well as Indians in the west: moccasins, leggings, breechclout, and a hunting shirt, a knee-length smock of linen, wool, or linsey-woolsey, drab and durable.
George Washington’s First War
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Women generally wear a loose, scoop-necked smock over a long skirt made by a wrap-around piece of cloth.
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If you have access to an embroidery machine, add an additional embellishment by embroidering a motif over the decorative or straight smocking stitches.
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Siobhan O'Musca's fingers flew as she gathered and tacked the smocking on the bodice of the ivory-colored ball gown.
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Her grandmother had dressed her ceremoniously in a white dress with elaborate smocking, as if she were being taken to church or to a party.
DANSVILLE
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Responsible for staff enrolling and resign process, smock management, staff files collect and keeping.
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Even allowing for Will Fern's smock-frock, the usual garment of the rural labourer throughout the 19th c., the costumes of The Chimes reveal a consistent sense of taste, style, and design.
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She looked hopeful and imploring in her little blue smock, and I felt sorry for her.
Christianity Today
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She felt dirtied in her old jeans, and her old student painting smock.
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If there is no innate difference between the substance of Sylvia Plath and a Mr Sheen add – ifyou take all the wild, ritous variety of the creative world and declareit to be identical, forcing each vibrant shape into the drab grey monotone of texthood – then it is you, Herr Doktor, who are running the police state, garbing the populace in prison smocks and shaving their obedient, coweringheads.
Dear Board of Studies « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows
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The stitchers display dazzling skill and finesse, creating textured surfaces of petit point, needlepoint, beading, embroidery, appliqué, smocking and macramé.
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Cap sleeves and a smock blouse look great with a waistcoat and teamed with a loose, lightweight scarf.
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Next to their smock they put on a fair corset of pure silk camblet; above that went the petticoat of white, red tawny, or gray taffeta.
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I
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Throughout her lifetime, her gifts of sewing, smocking, embroidery, and clothing to family and friends help tie them to her, and to one another.
Weaving Women's Words: Seattle Stories
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The folk dancers wore smocked shirts
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Whether it is sultry, as in lilac, or cool, as in lady's smocks, this mingling of fierce red and saintly blue has an elfin quality.
The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
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And lilac lady's-smock, -- but let them bloom alone, and leave
Ballad of Reading Gaol
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She wore a pink nylon smock similar to a nurse's uniform.
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Pale-pink lady's smock, just coming, and its pretty double form.
Times, Sunday Times
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Key pieces include smock dresses and cropped jeans.
Times, Sunday Times
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Grrr finally she picked a lovely pink smocked top reduced to a tenner.
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They fastened their breastplates, in war, over their smocks, and had other armour covering the lower parts of the body, and leg armour called "greaves"; while the great shield which guarded the whole body from throat to ankles was carried by a broad belt slung round the neck.
Tales of Troy: Ulysses, the sacker of cities
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The reaches of the river were spangled with white ranunculus, the marshy places were starred with lady's-smock and lit with marsh-mallow wherever the regiments of the sedges lowered their swords, and the northward-moving hippopotami, shiny black monsters, sporting clumsily, came floundering and blundering through it all, rejoicing dimly and possessed with one clear idea, to splash the river muddy.
Tales of Space and Time
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After apparent outside pressure on the brig due to my mistreatment, I was given a suicide prevention article of clothing called a "smock" by the guards.
Bradley Manning: 'Stripping me of all of my clothing is without justification'
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The reaches of the river were spangled with white ranunculus, the marshy places were starred with lady's-smock and lit with marsh-mallow wherever the regiments of the sedges lowered their swords, and the northward-moving hippopotami, shiny black monsters, sporting clumsily, came floundering and blundering through it all, rejoicing dimly and possessed with one clear idea, to splash the river muddy.
Tales of Space and Time
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Wood anemones, lady's smock, bird's-foot trefoil and other frail flowers will permeate a room with their fresh breath.
The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
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He drank thy health five times, _supernaculum_, [2] to my son Brain-sick; and dipt my daughter Pleasance's little finger, to make it go down more glibly: [3] And, before George, I grew tory rory, as they say, and strained a brimmer through the lily-white smock, i'faith.
The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06
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Lady's smock likes low-lying meadows and the edge of marshes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Women's costume consisted of underlinen, smock and petticoat, gown, ‘crosse cloths’, apron, neckerchief and coat.
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Further down, below the moor, the laneside verge was bright with lady's-smock, the so-called cuckooflower that blooms when the first cuckoo calls.
Country Diary: North Derbyshire
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Over the past year this chilly, sunless corridor has often been crowded with men dressed in jailhouse smocks, chained in a line at the ankles, waist and wrists.
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They seemed an almost comically suburban couple: polite, a little posh, all golf jumpers and floral smocks.
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A There is a glut of smock dresses for summer.
Times, Sunday Times
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The hem of the long smock descended like a bell of light around her legs.
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Soon he joined the green-smocked staff, offloading pallets and restocking shelves.
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Bunt Newcombe came out of a side door of the stable. He was wearing overalls and a greasy barn smock, and he moved with an odd swing of one leg. "Bum leg, " Dahlia said.
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Her eyes were glowing a deep red color, and soon her Persian smock ripped apart, revealing ancient Egyptian garb.
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But smocking them or adding some embroidered touches would make them new again ... and since I did it myself, I would make them even more my own.
Living Beautifully With the New Frugality
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Further down, below the moor, the laneside verge was bright with lady's-smock, the so-called cuckooflower that blooms when the first cuckoo calls.
Country Diary: North Derbyshire
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If you have access to an embroidery machine, add an additional embellishment by embroidering a motif over the decorative or straight smocking stitches.
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Scallop-edged eyelet and smocking provide a summery look, regardless of the season.
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Their clothing was certainly simple enough, each and all wearing only a kind of pinafore or smock frock reaching from the neck to the ankle and made of very coarse osnaburg, but kept as clean and whole as the nature of their employment allowed.
Ralph Rashleigh
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The woman dressed in the loose, mint colored smock was carefully using a pick to arrange the hair of the woman in her chair.
