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2. Smocking - Wikipedia

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   Smocking is an embroidery technique used to gather fabric so that it can stretch. Before elastic, smocking was commonly used in cuffs, bodices, and necklines in garments where buttons were undesirable. Smocking developed in England and has been practised since the Middle Ages and is unusual among embroidery methods in that it was often worn by ...

3. Ghanaian smock - Wikipedia

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   The Ghanaian Smock or Tani is a fabric worn by both women and men in Ghana. [1] It is the most popular traditional attire in the country. The fabric is called Tani in Dagbani, while the male and female wear are respectively called Bin'gmaa and Bin'mangli. The smock is formally worn with a hat (zipligu)/ scarf (bobga), footwear (muɣri), and a ...

4. Smock-frock - Wikipedia

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   Detail from May Day by Kate Greenaway.The child in green wears a smock-frock. Liberty art fabrics advertisement showing a smocked dress, May 1888. It is uncertain whether smock-frocks are "frocks made like smocks" or "smocks made like frocks"—that is, whether the garment evolved from the smock, the shirt or underdress of the medieval period, or from the frock, an overgarment of equally ...

5. Challis (fabric) - Wikipedia

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   Challis, sometimes referred to as challie[1] or chally, [2] is a lightweight woven fabric, originally a silk -and- wool blend, which can also be made from a single fibre, such as cotton, silk or wool, [3] or from man-made fabrics such as rayon. [4] It was first manufactured in Norwich, England, in about 1832, when it was designed as a thin ...

6. Polly Flinders - Wikipedia

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   Polly Flinders was a brand name of children's clothing, popular in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, and known for their hand- smocking. [1] Polly Flinders was the brain child of Richard Baylis and Merritt Baylis, two brothers from Cincinnati who were stationed in Washington, D.C., during World War II. The young men spent their free time in the ...

7. J.Lo Elevates Nancy Meyers–Core in an Elegant Floral Two-Piece

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   Hailing from Los Angeles-based womenswear brand Misa, the two-piece consisted of a smocked off-the-shoulder crop top and a flowing maxi skirt with a smocked waistband. Both pieces were entirely ...