Looking Flash: Clothing in Aotearoa New Zealand - Softcover
Offering a fresh look at the role of clothes in New Zealand history, this reference examines what New Zealanders wear and what they have worn—from the shrinking bathing suit to the black singlet—over the past three centuries, proving that clothing reveals as much as it conceals. The authors show that, despite a reputation for being wary of “looking flashy,” New Zealand has not always been a dowdy country. Essays span the clothing of pre-colonial Maori society, marching girls and castaways, and include 18th 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.
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Bronwyn Labrum is a senior lecturer in the School of Visual and Material Culture of Massey University–Wellington, New Zealand. Stephanie Gibson is a history curator at the National Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
"A significant and diverse collection of essays reflecting recent and ongoing research by academics and museum curators on aspects of New Zealand dress history." —New Zealand Journal of History
"A valuable and welcome addition to the small, but steadily growing, literature on New Zealand dress and fashion history." —Textile History
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- PublisherAuckland University Press
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1869403975
- ISBN 13 9781869403973
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
- EditorLabrum Bronwyn, Gibson Stephanie
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