Goldfield Fashions
It is difficult to picture the Hokitika of to-day as the roaring mining town it was in tlie boom days of the ’sixties, when more ships were to be seen anchored off-shore than in any other port in New Zealand. Though men of all types and nationalities were drawn to the West Coast by the chance of making a quick fortune on the gold fields, there was apparently some standardisation in the full dress of a gold-miner. A writer of the time has left tlie following description: “A high slouch hat, the front turned up sharp and the back turned down, a Crimean shirt with a knotted crimson silk scarf, a pair of moleskin trousers having a bright yellowish tinge by reason of the clay which seemed to wash in, but never to wash out, and kept in position by a crimson silk scarf; sometimes carrying a leathern sheath with a knife; ‘nugget’ pattern boots, and crimson silk laced cord around the crown of tlie bat.”— J.E. (Carterton).
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 255, 24 July 1937, Page 3 (Supplement)
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170Goldfield Fashions Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 255, 24 July 1937, Page 3 (Supplement)
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