Right Dress
When the New Zealand representatives leave the Dominion for the Empire Games at Cardiff in 1958 and the.next Olympic Games at Rome, in 1960, two young women from Christchurch hope that the teams are supplied with outfits of a much brighter hue than those issued to members of the 1956 team. Misses Pamela Curtis and Sona Mackenzie, two Christchurch girls who worked at the Olympic Village during the Games in Melbourne, upon their return to New Zealand agreed with. several statements already made on the sombreness of the New Zealanders’ official dress for the Games. Both girls were high in their praise for the conduct and bearing of the New Zealand team in Melbourne, but they considered that as ambassadors of their country they should have been dressed in a fashion which would have drawn attention to them. In comparison with other countries’ uniforms, they considered New Zealand looked drab. White trousers for the men and white dresses for the women would, they consider, have brightened the New Zealanders’ dress immeasurably.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28158, 22 December 1956, Page 5
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173Right Dress Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28158, 22 December 1956, Page 5
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