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Kōrero: Inventions, patents and trademarks

Swanndri shirt

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Swanndri shirt

The warm and comfortable Swanndri shirt, one of New Zealand’s best-known trademarks, has come between the wearer and the weather for more than a century. This example, with the lace-up front first added in 1927, probably dates from the late 1960s.

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Swanndri New Zealand

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Mark Derby, Inventions, patents and trademarks – Trademarks, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/25407/swanndri-shirt (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Mark Derby, i tāngia i te 11 May 2010, updated 1 February 2015.