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Story: Rural clothing

Dressing up

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Watch footage of race day in Gore in the early 1960s. Rural folk wore their best clothes to such events.

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Archives New Zealand - Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga

Reference: These New Zealanders no. 6 Gore. National Film Unit, 1964.

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Bronwyn Labrum, Rural clothing – Rural fashion, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/18532/dressing-up (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Bronwyn Labrum, published 1 March 2009.