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Story: The New Zealanders

Women on the beach, 1910

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Women on the beach, 1910

Over the years from about 1910 to 1930 days at the beach became a central and defining experience for New Zealanders. These two women sport loose-fitting ‘Canadian’ bathing costumes, which allowed more freedom of movement than previous beach clothing.

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Jock Phillips, The New Zealanders – ‘Where Britain goes, we go’, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/1968/women-on-the-beach-1910 (accessed 3 June 2026).

Story by Jock Phillips, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 May 2015.