Story: Clothes

More links and websites

• Appearances – life in the 20th century

  NZ History on clothing and identity.

• New Zealand Fashion Week

  An annual event promoting New Zealand fashion designers.

• Te Papa’s dress and textiles collection

  The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa has more than 7,000 items of dress and textiles.

More suggestions and sources

• Hammonds, Lucy, Douglas Lloyd Jenkins and Claire Regnault. The dress circle: New Zealand fashion design since 1940. Auckland: Godwit, 2010.
• Labrum, Bronwyn, Fiona McKergow, and Stephanie Gibson, eds. Looking flash: clothing in Aotearoa New Zealand. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2007.
• Lassig, Angela. New Zealand fashion design. Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2009.
• Lynch, Jenny. Ready to wear: the changing shape of New Zealand fashion. Auckland: Random House, 2004.
• Nicholson, Heather. The loving stitch: a history of knitting and spinning in New Zealand. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1998.
• Wolfe, Richard. The way we wore: the clothes New Zealanders have loved. Auckland: Penguin, 2001.