Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 253, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1917 — SMOCK IS NOT A MERE FAD [ARTICLE]

SMOCK IS NOT A MERE FAD

It Is the Most Comfortable Working Garment for the Gardener, Student, or Artist. The smock is not, as most people who do not wear it suppose, a mere feminine fad; it is something more; it is the comfortable working garment of the gardener, the student and the artist. That it is comfortable needs no proving, and that it is having a tremendous vogue also goes without proving. But like everything else that has a vogue, it’s bound to be abused. Silk, satin or any other of the flossy stuffs is decidedly not the thing for the workshop. But here’s one smock that is. It is three-quarter length, raglan sleeved, unbelted, smocked true to type, and —of heavy art canvas. The smocking front and back and on the sleeve ends is rather elaborate; then there is a bit of oriental embroidery on the rather deep sailor collar just to preserve the feminine air.