A loose over-garment worn to protect the clothes beneath. The smock was worn by 'country folk', living and working in rural communities, of the mid and southern counties of England, and to a limited extent, Wales. Popular in the 18th and first half of the 19th centuries, they fell out of fashion during the Victorian period and were considered unfashionable by the mid 19th century [Museum of English working Life http://www.reading.ac.uk/merl/the_collections/the_museum/smocks.html]

A Man in a Smock by James Ward (1769 1859) date not known
Source http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/ward-a-man-in-a-smock-n03704

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