The Smock Dress : Timeless Elegance and the Royal Treatment
From the outstanding craftsmanship, to amazing versatility, hand smocked clothing is taking over!!
Combined with Princess Charlotte’s ever growing star in the style stakes the classic cuts and prints of the smock dress are definitely more popular than ever and here to stay.
The Royals Love Smocked Clothing!
The whole world watched with bated breath when the Royal family welcomed baby number three in April. Prince Louis was baptized on the 9th of July and the style once again did not disappoint.
It is rumored that many of Princess Charlottes smock dresses are custom made by a royal seamstress and we know the Princess is often dressed in spanish brands, but most follow the same pattern of clean cuts and elegant lines that Kate is becoming so renowned for dressing her children in.
Question: So what exactly is Smocking?
Smocking is a style of technically gathering fabric into pleats that allow the fabric to stretch and also be embroidered for decorative purposes. There are many different techniques of embroidery and methods of pleating all which create different results.
Now as you can imagine this process takes time, effort, thought, love and care, and that is reflected in the price point of these style of dresses but it is also reflected in the quality of the end product. What you will be after investing in when you purchase a smock dress like these, is a piece of imperfect perfection. When things are handmade each piece will always be unique. You are also gaining a timeless item that passes from generation to generation always remaining stylish.
Did you know that it’s been said Princess Eleanor of Sweden wears her mother’s smock dress?
Smocked style of clothing has been around for thousands of years but in recent times it is really coming to the forefront of children’s fashion thanks in large to the flock of A-list youngsters like Suri Cruise and Harper Beckham who are following in the footsteps of their famously stylish parents and of course the Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton who really favors that traditional elegant style.
Reasons smocked clothing is here to stay!
The smock dress offers far more than just an elegant look, it is extremely comfortable for children to wear. Offering high qaulity fabrics that will look after the softest skin in well thought out cuts, and all busy mums out there know, its all well and good something looking fantastic but it also has to be functional for real life. Uncomfortable children are not happy children and who wants that? Not us!
Our children really truely do grow up so fast so lets all dress children like children and let kids be kids!
Pictured above : Marta, at the baby closet, wearing her traditional smock dress as a child!
Smocks have stood the test of time and really does go to show that you can have it all! Style, elegance and class combined with comfort, versatility and value for money?!
Count us in!