Figure 1.--This artsy French postcard shows as girl and a boy wearing a smock under an umbrella. The postcard is undated, but looks to be an early 20th century card. |
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HBC has noted a few images from the 1900s suggest that some French mothers had their boys wear smocks as play garment. we know that boys commonly wore smocks to school. We are unsure why we have found so few homeimages of boys wearing smocks at home. We have much less information on homewear. We do not know, however, how long this was a common fashion. We note Emil Zola's son, for example, playing in gingham smocks. Perhaps smocks as homewear was an upper-class fashion. Our limited information at this time, however, makes it impossible to accurately report on trends.
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