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Looking flash : clothing in Aotearoa New Zealand /

Contributor(s): Publication details: Auckland, N.Z. : Auckland University Press, 2007.Description: viii, 279 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781869403973
  • 1869403975
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Contents:
Dressing history up : Introduction / Bronwyn Labrum -- He whatu ariki, he kura, he waero : Chiefly threads, red and white / Patricia Te Arapo Wallace -- Unpicked for the voyage? Heirloom dresses in colonial New Zealand / Rosanne Livingstone and Valerie Carson -- Kilts as costumes : Identity, resistance and tradition / Katie Pickles -- Every garment tells a story : Exploring public collections / David Butts -- 'What are these, so withered, and so wild in their attire?' Castaways' clothing from the Auckland Islands / Jennifer Quérée -- Weaving a journeu : The story of a unique cloak / Awhina Tamarapa -- Hand-me-downs and respectability : Clothing and the needy / Bronywyn Labrum -- 'Just the thing' : Shopping for clothes in Palmerston North / Fiona McKergow -- On the beach : Or the 'unbearable scandal' of shrinking swimwear / Caroline Daley -- Dressing for war : Glamour and duty in women's lives during the Second World War / Deborah Montgomerie -- Moving in unison, dressing in uniform : Stepping out in style with matching teams / Charlotte Macdonald -- Engaging in mischief : The black singlet in New Zealand culture / Stephanie Gibson -- One man's fantasy : The Eden Hore collection of high and exotic fashion garments / Jane Malthus.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Whitecliffe Library NZ & Pacific NZ & Pacific NZ&P GT 1595 LOO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0009018

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-274) and index.

Dressing history up : Introduction / Bronwyn Labrum -- He whatu ariki, he kura, he waero : Chiefly threads, red and white / Patricia Te Arapo Wallace -- Unpicked for the voyage? Heirloom dresses in colonial New Zealand / Rosanne Livingstone and Valerie Carson -- Kilts as costumes : Identity, resistance and tradition / Katie Pickles -- Every garment tells a story : Exploring public collections / David Butts -- 'What are these, so withered, and so wild in their attire?' Castaways' clothing from the Auckland Islands / Jennifer Quérée -- Weaving a journeu : The story of a unique cloak / Awhina Tamarapa -- Hand-me-downs and respectability : Clothing and the needy / Bronywyn Labrum -- 'Just the thing' : Shopping for clothes in Palmerston North / Fiona McKergow -- On the beach : Or the 'unbearable scandal' of shrinking swimwear / Caroline Daley -- Dressing for war : Glamour and duty in women's lives during the Second World War / Deborah Montgomerie -- Moving in unison, dressing in uniform : Stepping out in style with matching teams / Charlotte Macdonald -- Engaging in mischief : The black singlet in New Zealand culture / Stephanie Gibson -- One man's fantasy : The Eden Hore collection of high and exotic fashion garments / Jane Malthus.

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