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Kōrero: Marching teams and cheerleaders

Uniforms: the Pirates

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Uniforms: the Pirates

Whangārei team the Pirates stand to attention in their eye-catching uniforms during the costume judging at a competition in the 1940s or 1950s. The chevron stripes on the dresses, hats and boots are striking, and when the team marched the effect was especially dazzling.

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Auckland Council Libraries − Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero o Tāmaki Makaurau, Sir George Grey Special Collections

Reference: NZMS 856-33

Permission of Auckland City Libraries Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Charlotte Macdonald, Marching teams and cheerleaders – The beginnings of marching as a sport, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/38061/uniforms-the-pirates (accessed 5 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Charlotte Macdonald, i tāngia i te 17 May 2012.