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Schoolgirls model frocks they make

Students from Parramatta Central Home Science High School in Sydney model dresses they have made. The designs are inspired by French fashion.

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Ugg boots

Young Sydney businessman Shane Stedman supplements his surfboard manufacturing operation by producing woollen ugg boots in the winter months.

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Best of Australian fashion in the 1940s and 1950s

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

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Three-Way Hat is Novel 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.

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Convict Shirt

In countless contemporary re-creations, convict clothing is patterned with lots of thick black arrows, but is that what convicts really wore?

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Camp-Berlei Foundation Garments - modelling fashion

Fashionable garments are modelled displaying a range of designers clothes include a dress by couturier Melnotte Simonin; a hand-embroidered coat with fur trim by designer Jacques Heim, a painted ve

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Camp-Berlei Foundation Garments - The basis of all frocking

In the closing minutes of this advertisement, mannequins and live models appear in Berlei’s figure-hugging foundation garments, the ‘basis for all frocking’.

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It Isn’t Done - The 'futility of careless dressing'

In an elaborate fitting room, careless Barb is always losing things. She has lost her shoes, and she just may lose her heart this evening too!

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It Isn’t Done - The Berlei Figure Type Indicator

After taking Barb’s measurements, Ms Blake calls Ms Trent and asks her to check them against the Berlei Figure Type Indicator, which indicates she is a ‘slender average type’.

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Ugg boots: birth of an Aussie fashion icon

Watch a classic newsreel about the 1960s origins of Ugg boots and the Australian surfer who popularised them.