Home sewing on display
Linda Evans has a close connection with a Kiwi fashion showcase.
The Waimauku resident has her wedding dress in the Home Sewn exhibition which runs until September 26.
Organised by the New Zealand Fashion Museum, the event features 40 garments made by people for themselves or a member of the family, from the early 1930s to today.
Each exhibitor's story is recorded for visitors to read, accompanied with a photo of the garment as it was originally worn or with the pattern used to make it.
Linda can generally be found making clothes in her workroom for herself and family at the Waimauku home she's lived in for six years.
She also tends to her large garden.
The classic craft and pastime has been a passion since she was 10 and she even entered her first dress a year later in the Milne and Choyce doll show.
She started working in the Bendon design workroom in 1969 as an assistant and while there, spotted a sample of floral cotton.
She ordered it direct from Switzerland to make her wedding dress.
She opened her first boutique in Avondale in 1973 and ran a children's wear shop with her label Chippo in the 1980s and then her upstairs studio Millennium from the 1990s to 2003.
She was also nominated three times for the Benson and Hedges fashion awards and had a parade in the first New Zealand Fashion Week.
Making fashionable clothing continues to be an important part of Linda's life.
Her exhibition is based at the Nathan Gallery, 40 Customs St East, Britomart, Auckland.
The event is hosted by a charitable trust started by the museum's curator Doris De Pont.
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