Hosiery, Nylon
Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :[Tall woman in short skirt. ca 1960]
Date: 1960
From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :[Cartoons from the Free Lance Collection 1950s, by Nevile Lodge and Winton Bristow]
Reference: B-074-054
Description: Shows a tall woman pulling down the hem of her skirt in an effort to cover the top of her stocking and suspenders. She is holding one of her high-heeled shoes in her hand as she stands on one leg. Possibly used to illustrate the difficulties tall women have in obtaining clothes to fit them, or referring to the rising hemlines of the era. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, and letratone, 380 x 137 mm
Photographic prints relating to industry
Date: 1950-2000
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: PAColl-7327-1-087
Description: Photographs taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand and abroad, by a range of photographers, between 1950 and 2000. Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in folders.
Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :Not again! At the rate you go through nylons you'd thi...
Date: 1966
From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]
By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989
Reference: B-133-533
Description: In a scene in a living room, husband and wife sit in two armchairs in front of the fire. The wife has put down her magazine and tends the fire with a poker. She looks with dismay at her knee where a hole has appeared in her stocking. The husband is reading the paper, where there is a headline, 'Wait and see' says ENZLON receiver, and speaks crossly. The fireplace is made of stone and there are various ornaments, including an elephant, on the mantelpiece. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, letratone and pencil, 288 x 395 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.
[Coolahan, Kate], 1929- :As advertised by Reader's digest. Small people live in socks ....
Date: 1962
By: Coolahan, Kate, 1929-
Reference: Eph-D-COSTUME-1962-01
Description: Poster shows an illustration of small cartoon children beside socks that are big enough for them to live inside. They are on a grassy hillside setting with trees. Lower left text: Made in fancy nylon, lisle-bri-nylon stretch, terylene-bri-nylon, fancy bri-nylon stretch, and stretch nylon. Illustrated in Hamish Thompson's "Paste up" (2003), page 106. This source provides attribution and date. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 670 x 492 mm.