Story: Rural clothing

Dressing up

Watch footage of race day in Gore in the early 1960s. Rural folk wore their best clothes to such events.

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Archives New Zealand - Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga
Reference: These New Zealanders no. 6 Gore. National Film Unit, 1964.

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Bronwyn Labrum, 'Rural clothing - Rural fashion', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/video/18532/dressing-up (accessed 30 March 2024)

Story by Bronwyn Labrum, published 24 Nov 2008