IMAGE
Member of Parliament, Mabel Howard, demonstrating that oversize bloomers vary in size
- Date
- 1954
- Reference
- EP-NZ Obits-Ho to Ht-01
- Description
Labour Member of Parliament for Sydenham, Mabel Howard, holding the two pairs of women's bloomers she produced in Parliament on 22 September, 1954, during the second reading of the Merchandise Marks Bill. She was illustrating her argument that garments marked OS (oversize) vary in dimension, and calling for labels to carry unit of length measurements. Photograph taken by an unidentified staff photographer for the Evening Post, 23 September, 1954.
Other - Negative for this image at EP/1954/1735 has deteriorated
Publication note - Published in the Evening Post 23 September, 1954
Arrangement: Print held in Evening Post illustrations file at cabinet 19, drawer 1
Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 25.5 x 17.2 cm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers / New Zealand obituaries - Ho to Ht
- Format
- 1 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs, Portraits, Silver gelatin print 25.5 x 17.2 cm, Orientation: Vertical image
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