Smocked

Liberty stuffs very plain in line, but elaborately "smocked," were greatly in vogue, and evening dresses, "cut square," or with "Watteau pleats," were generally worn, and often in conscious protest against the London "low dress," which Oxford -- young married Oxford -- thought both ugly and ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)

This is a story about artisanal cheese and hand-polished wooden toys, organic spinach and exquisitely smocked baby dresses — the burgeoning small-scale economy so beloved by members of the "creative class." ❋ Virginia Postrel (2011)

It started in a smocked dress and socks trimmed with lace. ❋ Harley May (2011)

Little girls wore smocked dresses, but older women usually wore blouses and skirts. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Their picnic consists of Irish lemonade, small cream-filledéclairs, and overpriced sandwiches bought from a shop with a white-smocked butcher who doesn't cut meat. ❋ Douglas Light (2011)

Usually, this dress has detailing that makes it look a little more luxe than the typical beach caftan—a fluttery sleeve or a smocked waist, for example—so she can go from the sand to a nice restaurant if there isn't time to change. ❋ Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan (2011)

She likes smocked dresses, jumpers with cute appliques, and pretty colors. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I was wearing a white smocked chemise under my new yellow pointed bodice that laces in the back, a present from Rose. ❋ Priya Parmar (2011)

Polly is the first of my children to ever wear the gown, which is silk with a chiffon overlay trimmed with two ribbon bows and tiny smocked pleats - simple yet so much nicer than anything I could make or buy today. ❋ Regina Doman (2008)

While shopping with my guardian angel and praying for a good deal on a limited budget, I found some already-smocked fabric at WalMart on clearance and used it to make matching skirts for myself and the older girls. ❋ Regina Doman (2008)

Nora Deacon's smocked dress art david foster wallace ❋ The Nag (2008)

If your memories of barrettes are distant and also involve smocked dresses, patent leather mary-janes and anklets, you're not alone. ❋ Unknown (2010)

One day, Nora Deacon was showing her paper smocked dresses in a city park in Toronto. ❋ The Nag (2008)

I heard an interesting documentary on The Sunday Edition about Nora Deacon, an artist who sews pretty smocked dresses out of paper patterns. ❋ The Nag (2008)

It is not very honest but it is a smocked salmon many times better than the commercialy smocked salmon. ❋ Laurie Constantino (2008)

The kit also contains this “coconut” colored hand towel; it has a pretty smocked, embossed look. ❋ Nupur (2008)

Not in my home, and not that I really understood so while I was out there with my gang roller skating around in a smocked frock with a bow at the back, but out there in the world at large, and casting my mind back little incidents fly in that are suddenly most unwelcome. ❋ Unknown (2008)