Menswear
Premium British-Made Men's Smocks — Voted by the Community
This directory lists 9 premium brands that make men's smocks in the UK. They are most often based in Norfolk. Ranked by community upvotes.
Yarmouth Oilskins
Yarmouth Oilskins is a British brand with over 120 years of heritage, designing and manufacturing quality workwear in Great Yarmouth.
- Heritage
- Nautical
- Workwear
- Heritage
- Nautical
- Workwear
SEAM JUNKIES
SEAM JUNKIES is an independent Stirling clothing label making handcrafted outerwear engineered in Scotland, mostly produced to order.
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Blackshore
Blackshore is a British brand founded in 2017, specialising in sustainable clothing and accessories made with ethical production and local craftsmanship.
- Contemporary
- Nautical
Factory shop- Contemporary
- Nautical
B D Garments/Northern Style
Established in 2006, B D Garments is a Belfast based manufacturer specializing in marching band uniforms and regalia. Northern Style is our in house retro clothing brand inspired by 60s design
- Casual
- Classic
- Heritage
- Casual
- Classic
- Heritage
KerrieALDO
KerrieALDO is a Dundee-based slow fashion brand crafting handcrafted garments from locally sourced materials.
- Contemporary
- Slow Fashion
- Contemporary
- Slow Fashion
HebTroCo
HebTroCo is a British clothing brand founded in 2015 in Hebden Bridge, known for supporting small UK manufacturers by producing durable garments made exclusively in Britain.
- Casual
- Heritage
- Outdoor
Shop to visit- Casual
- Heritage
- Outdoor
Eastmond Apparel
Eastmond Apparel creates classic men's clothing with functionality and simplicity, made in the UK using British fabrics. Designed to last and be loved.
- Classic
- Contemporary
- Heritage
- Classic
- Contemporary
- Heritage
Elgar Shirts
Elgar Shirts is a UK brand founded by twin sisters Catherine and Jane Elgar, crafting historical-inspired garments with quality natural fabrics and made-to-measure options.
- Classic
- Vintage
- Classic
- Vintage
Paul James
Paul James is a Leicestershire-based luxury knitwear manufacturer producing garments from 100% natural fibres. They craft timeless, ethically made knitwear in family-owned factories in England and India.
Shops run by premium brands that make men's smocks
3 of the 9 premium brands that make men's smocks have a shop you can visit in Hebden Bridge, Rackheath and Stirling.
Hebden Bridge
Rackheath
Blackshorefactory shop
Stirling
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A Brief History of British Made Smocks
The smock frock, now usually just called a smock, is a loose overgarment worn to protect the clothes beneath. It is thought to have grown out of the loose linen or canvas coats worn by seventeenth-century carters, and was in use from the mid-1700s. Farm labourers in the Midlands, southern England and parts of Wales wore it through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Smocks were cut from squares and rectangles of linen or coarse cloth such as drabbet, so little fabric was wasted. The fullness was gathered with close honeycomb stitching, and many were embroidered at the collar and shoulders. The loose cut shed rain and kept out the wind, which suited shepherds and carters. Smocks were at their most popular in the mid-nineteenth century. By the end of that century they were dying out in the countryside, partly because a loose garment was dangerous near machinery. Painters and potters later wore smock-style overalls, and the form passed into women's and children's clothing. British-made smocks today build on this long history as a practical working layer.