Author and historian Claire Regnault felt validated when she won the award for Best Illustrated Non-Fiction Book at this year’s Ockham Book Awards for her contribution Dressed: Fashionable Dress in Aotearoa New Zealand 1840 to 1910.
“Fashion is far more than hemlines,” she tells the Weekly about her win in the competitive category.
“Often, dress and fashion in various circles seem frivolous, and not that important,