Story: Rural clothing

More links and websites

• Gumboots

  Fred Dagg’s gumboots, from Te Papa’s online collection database.

• One size fits all – the Swanndri success story

  An article from New Plymouth museum Puke Ariki about the Swanndri success story.

• Swanndri NZ website and online store

  The official Swanndri site, including the company’s history.

More suggestions and sources

• Barnett, Stephen, and Richard Wolfe. New Zealand! New Zealand! In praise of Kiwiana. Auckland: Hodder & Stoughton, 1989.
• Ebbett, Eve. In true colonial fashion: a lively look at what New Zealanders wore. Wellington: Reed, 1977
• Labrum, Bronwyn, Fiona McKergow and Stephanie Gibson, eds. Looking flash: clothing in Aotearoa New Zealand. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2007.
• Law, Robin. ‘Masculinity, place, and beer advertising in New Zealand: the Southern Man campaign.’ New Zealand Geographer 53, no. 2 (1997): 22–28.
• McIntosh, Doris. ‘Dress.’ Making New Zealand: pictorial surveys of a century 2, no. 23. Wellington: Department of Internal Affairs, 1940.
• Wolfe, Richard. The way we wore: the clothes New Zealanders have loved. Auckland: Penguin, 2001.