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Story: Sewing, knitting and textile crafts

Children's clothes, 1961 and 2013

  • 1961

  • 2013

In the 1960s many women made their children's clothes. Young Narelle Pollock of Invercargill is wearing a smart home-made outfit comprising a wool jacket and matching tartan skirt in 1961. Fast-forward to 2013, and her grandson Amos Pollock of Wellington is wearing an entirely shop-bought outfit, which was the norm by then. 

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Kerryn Pollock, Sewing, knitting and textile crafts – Home textile crafts, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/interactive/40521/childrens-clothes-1961-and-2013 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Kerryn Pollock, published 12 December 2012.