Coloured glass slide, black text, green and pink background, features image of Norman Leven to the left.

Glass slide. Clear background with an image of Kevin Loughlin. Text: 'Kev. Loughlin endorsed Communist candidate for Baroona on May 19th'.

Glass slide for the Australian Labor Party. Full caption reads: 'Going! Going! Whoa you brute! Throw him off our backs. Defeat Menzies on November 22nd'.

Mark Foy's fashion parades from the 1940s and '50s, featuring designers Pierre Balmain and Schiaparelli, captured in gorgeous colour footage.

An excerpt of a Mark Foy's fashion parade in 1956 from Fashion Parades at Mark Foy’s (1947–56), Film Australia Collection, NFSA.

Take your front row seat for this collection which illuminates postwar Australia through glorious vintage fashion.

Ex-serviceman and milliner John Pickworth of Hunters Hill, Sydney shows his creation – a hat that can be worn three ways.

The hat is made from wool georgette.

A woman in a dress dances to cocktail music as a female voice-over explains the features of the ‘Sarong’ girdle the woman is wearing beneath her clothes.

A woman dressed in golfing attire practices her golf swing as a female voice-over explains the features of the ‘Sarong’ girdle the woman is wearing beneath her clothes.

Welcome to the world of The Dressmaker, where haute couture and the Australian outback are brilliantly combined.