Black shearer's singlet

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Black shearer's singlet

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New Zealand Fashion Museum

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New Zealand Fashion Museum

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Traditionally shearers wore a black singlet, thick trousers and moccasins cut from a wool bale. Today, they wear custom-made shearing pants and coloured singlets. The black woollen singlet allowed shearers to keep warm, while freely moving their arms, and the extra length protected their kidneys. Pure wool has the added bonus of fire resistance, as attested at field days where people were encouraged to put a blowtorch to a singlet to test this theory. This singlet is from the Manawatu Knittin...

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Date created

2011

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Singlet

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Garment loan courtesy of Manawatu Knitting Mills ; Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 Licence

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