smock-frock

On week days he worked among them in a smock-frock.

He received them in his smock-frock, which he held out for more.

English countryman wears a round felt hat and a smock-frock.

I thought that man in the smock-frock 'ud see me and know I put the baby there.

The chemise also morphed into the smock-frock, a garment worn by English laborers until the early 20th century.

What is certain is that the fully developed smock-frock resembles a melding of the two older garments.

And there was a face looking down on her; but it was an unknown face, belonging to an elderly man in a smock-frock.

The traditional smock-frock is made of heavy linen or wool and varies from thigh-length to mid-calf length.

The spread of the smock-frock matches a general decrease in agricultural wages and living standards in these areas in the second half of the eighteenth century.

With these words he pulled up the smock-frock; and, winding it round his middle, drew a chair to the fire, and placed his feet upon the hob.

FROCK, smock-frock.

There are a number of different names for the same garments, for instance Guernsey frock, Guernsey shirt, smock-frock, or fisherman's frock.

A smock-frock or smock is an outer garment traditionally worn by rural workers, especially shepherds and waggoners, in parts of England and Wales from the early eighteenth century.

The fabric takes its name from the word "gaberdine", originally a long, loose cloak or gown worn in the Middle Ages, but later signifying a rain cloak or protective smock-frock.

"Take off the bridle and give him a drink, ostler," said the traveller to the lad in a smock-frock, who had come out of the yard at the sound of the horse's hoofs.

The most ragged had been given clothes by the receiving-ships, but the others were still in their own worn corduroy or ancient second-hand coats - one countryman still had his smock-frock on.

From the seventeenth century on, a frock is a thigh- or full-length loose outer garment worn by shepherds, workmen, and farm workers in Britain, generally of heavy linen with a broad flat collar, now usually called a smock-frock.

From the earlier eighteenth century, the smock-frock was worn by waggoners and carters; by the end of that century, it had become the common outer garment of agricultural labourers of all sorts throughout the Midlands and Southern England.

Characteristic features of the smock-frock are fullness across the back, breast, and sleeves folded into "tubes" (narrow unpressed pleats) held in place and decorated by smocking, a type of surface embroidery in a honeycomb pattern across the pleats that controls the fullness while allowing a degree of stretch.