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Colin Cole started his eponymous label in 1958 and went on to become a leading fashion designer in the following decade. He was still at work in the 1980s, when Beverly Reeves, the wife of Governor-General Paul Reeves (pictured with her here), wore this grey printed silk dress to a reception for the diplomatic corps at Government House in 1985.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)
Reference: EP/1985/5202A/8a-F
by Stuart Ramson
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.