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Modern clothing

Dr Charlotte Westwood, a ruminant nutritionist from Australia, talks to two farmers about the feed crop kale in 2007. The group’s dress is typical of many modern farmers – gumboots, jeans, and polar fleece or wool jackets.

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Bronwyn Labrum, Rural clothing – Menswear, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/18480/modern-clothing (accessed 14 June 2026).

Story by Bronwyn Labrum, published 1 March 2009.