CHRISTCHURCH-BORN GARY SCOTT ROBERTS, aged 23, with one of his collection of models shown earlier this year, in London. Gary Roberts designed all the clothes in his collection, and personally stitched and embroidered each model in three weeks, working in a small workroom at Dulwich. His mother, a tailoress, taught him to sew, and his grandmother showed him how to do beading on dresses when he was only nine. Before coming to London he was for seven years a hairdresser in New Zealand.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31224, 23 November 1966, Page 2
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83CHRISTCHURCH-BORN GARY SCOTT ROBERTS, aged 23, with one of his collection of models shown earlier this year, in London. Gary Roberts designed all the clothes in his collection, and personally stitched and embroidered each model in three weeks, working in a small workroom at Dulwich. His mother, a tailoress, taught him to sew, and his grandmother showed him how to do beading on dresses when he was only nine. Before coming to London he was for seven years a hairdresser in New Zealand. Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31224, 23 November 1966, Page 2
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