Watermelon pink sequinned ballgown

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Title

Watermelon pink sequinned ballgown

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New Zealand Fashion Museum

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New Zealand Fashion Museum

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In 1970 Linda Ritchie was 20 and had just finished studying at Waikato University. The following year she won a string of pageants that included the Miss New Zealand title. Although confident and self-assured, Linda was somewhat unprepared for the challenges of international pageant life. With the rise of the women’s liberation movement beauty contests had become a symbol of objectification, a hangover of feminine ideals from the 1950s and 60s. Burning bras and abandoning the fashion rules we...

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Date created

1971

Creator

Vinka Lucas

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Ball gown

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