New Frock Fashion For Eid New Collection.

From the earlier eighteenth century, the smock-frock was worn by waggoners and carters; by the end of that century, it had become the common outer garment of agricultural labourers of all sorts throughout the Midlands and Southern England.

The spread of the smock frock matches a general decrease in agricultural wages and living standards in these areas in the second half of the eighteenth century.