IMPORTANCE OF CONTEST
Planned to inspire fine design, to encourage good craftsmanship of woollen clothes made in New Zealand and to keep the importance of wool as a fabric before the public, the national wool awards contest has become an important annual event in the fashion world. This year 67 awards have been made by the judges among the 660 garments entered.
Begun in August, 1960, the contest, sponsored by the New Zealand Wool Board, has aroused interest through New Zealand and also overseas. The clothes which won acclaim at the fashion showing in Wellington last evening will be flown to Australia tomorrow for a repeat parade.
Last night the supreme award, a slim symbolic female figure draped In a sweeping length of wool, was presented by the Prime Minister (Mr Holyoake) to Mr G. Stroobant, a director of New Zealand Raincoats, of Wellington, and designer of the men’s gold medal topcoat, which won the award.
At the parade in the Lower Hutt Town Hall last evening the gold medal garments were shown, with the garments in each section, which had won awards of merit, grouped around the centre figure.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29746, 13 February 1962, Page 18
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