Alison Toplis - The Hidden History of the Smock Frock

The Hidden History
of the Smock Frock

The Hidden History
of the Smock Frock

Alison Toplis

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First published in Great Britain 2021

Copyright Alison Toplis, 2021

Alison Toplis has asserted her right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as Author of this work.

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Series design by Adriana Brioso

Cover image: Arthur Smith of Bledlow Ridge, 1872, Victorian Prisoner Photographs Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies, Buckinghamshire Council, reference: Q/AG/2326 Prisoner 4621

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Toplis, Alison (Writer on clothing and dress), author.

Title: The hidden history of the smock frock / Alison Toplis.

Description: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021. |

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020036652 (print) | LCCN 2020036653 (ebook) |

ISBN 9781350212640 (paperback) | ISBN 9781350126114 (hardback) |

ISBN 9781350126121 (pdf) | ISBN 9781350126138 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: SmocksHistory. | Work clothesHistory.

Classification: LCC GT1860 .T67 2021 (print) | LCC GT1860 (ebook) |

DDC 391.4/809dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020036652

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020036653

ISBN: HB: 978-1-3501-2611-4

PB: 978-1-3502-1264-0

ePDF: 978-1-3501-2612-1

eBook: 978-1-3501-2613-8

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Fashion: Visual and Material Interconnections

Series editor: Rebecca Arnold, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK

This interdisciplinary series explores the ways that the visual and material interact to create and sustain fashion cultures, both historically and today. Published in association with the world-renowned Courtauld Institute of Art, the series seeks to unpack the ways looking, seeing, wearing and being interconnect with wider visual, material and technological cultures of fashion. Through focused studies of specific themes and case studies in fashion and dress history, the series comprises exciting, new research that foregrounds fashion as a lived, emotional and sensory experience. Including both national and transnational examples, ranging from fashion film to periodicals to fashion photography, it fosters and facilitates new ways of thinking about dress as a local and global phenomenon. Titles in the series draw upon fashion studies and dress history, in addition to art, architecture, design history, philosophy, memory studies and the history of emotions.

Published

The Hidden History of the Smock Frock , Alison Toplis

Prt--Porter, Paris and Women: A Cultural Study of French Readymade Fashion, 194568 , Alexis Romano

Forthcoming

Fashion After Capital: Frock Coats and Philosophy from Marx to Duchamp , Tai Smith

Danger in the Path of Chic: Violence in Fashion between the Wars , Lucy Moyse Ferreira