| 1. | Smocking was used most extensively in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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| 2. | Often organized in diagonally arranged sets of flowerettes for loose smocking.
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| 3. | :I was invited to comment here by User : Smocking.
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| 4. | Early smocking, or gauging, was done by hand.
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| 5. | Smocking refers to work done before a garment is assembled.
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| 6. | There's no smocking or heavy embroidery.
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| 7. | Expect iridescence, puckering, smocking, small patterns, slip dresses with asymmetrical hemlines.
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| 8. | A plum chiffon gown done entirely in smocking brought to mind the Grecian columns of Mme.
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| 9. | Those dresses _ in sleeveless black jersey for evening with smocking on the yoke _ vaguely resemble nighties.
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| 10. | Smocking was also seen on tops at Ralph Lauren, who picked up on other important trends of the season.
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