Kōrero: Beach culture

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Beauty contest, 1960s

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By the 1960s, contestants in beach beauty competitions wore bikinis.

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Jock Phillips, Beach culture – Beach culture, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/25/beauty-contest-1960s (accessed 5 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.