Rather than leave the house in last season's ostrich leather, I resort to a kind of fashion penitence - a plain black smock dress from the Gap.

Ms. Sui, who also collects the smock dresses from the 1960's, reinterpreted both fabrics and cuts in her fall 2001 collection.

"The smock dress or the Austrian coat sit here," said Joan Blake, the owner.

In front of their clapboard ranch stood the austere farming couple, he in his rimless spectacles and overalls, she in her prim smock dress.

Girls with bows stuck on their heads like tracking collars wore expensive smock dresses and frilly socks.

The invitation to Hussein Chalayan's spring 2003 show, held here on Friday night, showed a picture of a smiling little girl in a red smock dress.

In the tradition of mothers and daughters dressing alike, young girls are adding leggings to their smock dresses and colorful T-shirts.

Bois de Rose Classic smock dresses for girls.

The most expensive gift is a handmade smock dress for $78.

I got away with the smock dresses until she was about 6, but then it was over.