Appearances – life in the 20th century

NZHistory on clothing and identity.

New Zealand Fashion Week

An annual event promoting New Zealand fashion designers.

Te Papa’s dress and textiles collection

The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa has more than 7,000 items of dress and textiles.

Hammonds, Lucy, Douglas Lloyd Jenkins and Claire Regnault. The dress circle: New Zealand fashion design since 1940. Auckland: Godwit, 2010.

Labrum, Bronwyn, Fiona McKergow, and Stephanie Gibson, eds. Looking flash: clothing in Aotearoa New Zealand. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2007.

Lassig, Angela. New Zealand fashion design. Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2009.

Lynch, Jenny. Ready to wear: the changing shape of New Zealand fashion. Auckland: Random House, 2004.

Nicholson, Heather. The loving stitch: a history of knitting and spinning in New Zealand. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1998.

Wolfe, Richard. The way we wore: the clothes New Zealanders have loved. Auckland: Penguin, 2001.