Smocking Newsletter Vol. Welcome to the smocking newsletter from Garden Fairies Trading Company, my name is Beth-Katherine Kaiman. This newsletter comes to you once a week. Please respect my creativity and request permission before you use something I've written.
All experience is an arch, to build upon.
Smocking still abounded on the children's fashions, basically unchanged in the basic yoke and bishop designs, and it is the time period of the 40's that the standards for smocked children's garments were set for our time period. Styles for children have basically remained unchanged since then, with variations and taste changes of our time period but fundamentally children's clothing has not evolved as drastically as women's fashions. If used in woman's fashions the smocking stitches moved from being the focal point and texture of fabric created by smocking a loose stitch such as the honeycomb moved in. Fabric Manipulation became a word in our vocabularies. Women were no longer content with shirring fabric in a straight line and then embroidering over the pleats, they also wanted to experiment with the different patterns that one could do with puckering by working the running or shirring stitch in patterns and then pulling the thread tight creating this puckering.