The annual ‘procesh’ or capping parades organised by university students were an opportunity to engage in high jinks, bawdiness and cross-dressing. This is the ‘Queen of Sheba’, a participant in the 1928 Victoria College parade in Wellington. His skirt appears to be made from a New Zealand Truth newspaper.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Evening Post Collection (PAColl-0614)
Reference:
EP-0164-1/2; G
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