That's exactly what it was......a tunic. The still used the Roman style of tunic. It is called a Kirtle.
A smock.
A smock
The surname Smock is an English name from Middle English 'smock', 'shift'. It is an occupational name for someone who made or sold such garments, or a nickname for someone who habitually wore a smock.
A dishdasha is an Arabic garment - a long smock worn over pantaloons for coolness in hot weather.
Ginger Smock was born in 1920.
Ginger Smock died in 1995.
Ann Smock has written: 'What Is There to Say?'
France where it was a workmans or peasants smock for 40 years anyway before it reached English in 1828 but how it got to France & from where is uncertain perhaps from provence where lano blouso meant a short wool garment or perhaps from pelusium a city of upper Egypt where clothing was manufactured in the middle ages or perhaps from somewhere else
John Conover Smock died in 1926.
Raymond W. Smock was born in 1941.
John Conover Smock was born in 1842.