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Offering A Fresh Look At The Role Of Clothes In New Zealand History, Looking Flash Examines What We Wear And What We Have Worn - From The Shrinking Bathing Suit To The Black Singlet - Over The Past Three Centuries. The Writers Show That, Despite A Reputation For Being Wary Of 'looking Flash', New Zealand Has Not Always Been A Dowdy Country. Essays Span The Clothing Of Pre-colonial Maori Society, Marching Girls And Castaways, And Include Eighteenth-century Heirloom Dresses, Hand-me-downs, Wartime Garb And Kilts. There Are Also Extraordinary Stories About The Fate Of A Maori Cloak And An Otago Farmer's Remarkable Collection Of 1970s High-fashion Garments.--book Jacket. 1. Dressing History Up : Introduction / Bronwyn Labrum -- 2. He Whatu Ariki, He Kura, He Waero : Chiefly Threads, Red And White / Patricia Te Arapo Wallace -- 3. Unpicked For The Voyage? Heirloom Dresses In Colonial New Zealand / Rosanne Livingstone And Valerie Carson -- 4. Kilts As Costumes : Identity, Resistance And Tradition / Katie Pickles -- 5. Every Garment Tells A Story : Exploring Public Collections / David Butts -- 6. 'what Are These, So Withered, And So Wild In Their Attire? Castaways' Clothing From The Auckl

Author

Bronwyn Labrum (editor), Stephanie Gibson (editor)

Publisher

Auckland, N.Z.: Auckland University Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781869403973

Subjects

Anthropology, History, Social_sciences