Do you know about smocked outfit

Hand smocked clothing is traditional outfit and appeared to many decades, this style of clothing was referred to as simply smock. Smocked clothes for baby include of smocked girl’s dresses, smocked sets, smocked bubble, smocked outfits…

Smock embroidery is where fabric is taken and folded into an accordion fashion, these are known as pleats. A string is then taken and sewn through these pleats in various areas in order to hold them into place. Then using colored thread and needle, the tops of these formed peaks of the pleats are adorned, by hand embroidering small figurines such as flowers or pictures depicting small animals or other lovely scenes.

The areas of the clothing, which were usually smocked, were the cuffs, chest and waist areas of the outfits. This would make the outfit into a loose fitting style outfit and would become a traditional fashion of its time. Making smocked clothing is a labor-intensive task and not an easy one. A smocked garment is usually assembled from section, then carefully adding the hand embroidery portion were needed, at times the pleated section is embroidered separately then added to complete the outfit.

It’s not known if this was the main reason why hand smocked clothing would lose popularity around this same time, but very well could be one of the factors. Luckily the hand smocked clothes would resurface years for families to enjoy and cherish. 

Today, there are alternatives to getting your hands on lovely hand smocked clothing. One alternative is to purchase what is known as machine smocked clothes. This is where all the smocking embroidery is done by machine and not by hand as they early days. Some of the machine smocked outfit is lovelyindeed and comparable but does not hold up to the true traditional hand smocked clothes.