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The Hidden History of the Smock Frock

By Alison Toplis, Rebecca Arnold (Editor)
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$36.95
By Alison Toplis, Rebecca Arnold (Editor)
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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 historie...

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