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