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Story: Marching teams and cheerleaders

Uniforms: the Sargettes

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Uniforms: the Sargettes

Champion Wellington team the Sargettes march in their Highland-inspired uniforms, complete with tartan skirts and tam o' shanter caps, in 1951. Their tops are decorated with the numerous medals they won.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

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Charlotte Macdonald, Marching teams and cheerleaders – The beginnings of marching as a sport, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/38062/uniforms-the-sargettes (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Charlotte Macdonald, published 17 May 2012.