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Gregory, displaying "a flair for inventiveness" designed "Splatadashes" and in 1971 was described as having "put Timaru on the map as a launching pad for fashion trends”. The "revolutionary boots in two parts could be worn over an ordinary pair of shoes" and were sold at
Auckland department stores
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Ready cut to sew "Kitset
Clothes" (later "Designer Fashion Kits") entered the market initially via retail in 1977. Their unique design, featuring no zips, buttonholes, darts, linings, interfacings or hand sewing, meant they could be easily constructed at home following a simple instruction sheet.
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In 1992, appointed a judge for the Benson and Hedges
Fashion Design Awards, Gregory recommended the High Fashion Daywear Award be replaced with a “collection of three garments” to “bring a long needed commercial aspect into the awards”. Gregory noted “commercial designers wanting to work in the
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In 1978 Gregory formed Trish
Gregory Fashions (NZ) Ltd., and leased factory space in Wellington. Impatient to expose this new idea to a wider market, Gregory decided to by-pass retail and take the product direct to the consumer. Fashion consultants were hired and trained to present intimate
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In 1973, Gregory took the top award for High
Fashion Daywear in the New Zealand Benson and Hedges Fashion Design Awards with her design 'Flappers'. It was reported that Gregory's entry "showed the signature of a really creative designer who has what the Americans call 'class'". Gregory was
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described as producing “creative design that has all the smooth professionalism of an international couturier” and that her entry “was unmistakably a winner she has produced a design that, if it were commercially exploited, could well be a trend-setter”.
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Gregory “scooped another major award” in 1974 winning the NZ Benson & Hedges top award for High
Fashion Daywear. It was noted that Gregory “has consistently been to the fore in New Zealand fashion design over the last four or five years”.
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fashion shows to invited guests in private homes. Afterwards, guests could try on a garment and purchase exactly the same item in kit form. This became the framework of the Trish
Gregory selling method.
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Gregory was appointed Design Consultant for the marine clothing manufacturer Line 7 Ltd., and designed the graphics on the Line 7 wet weather gear worn on board
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fashion designer and businesswoman, who achieved widespread recognition as one of New
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disciplined area of mass market must have the ability to think in terms of collections, stories and groups rather than individual one-off creations.”
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Gregory entered the New Zealand Benson and Hedges Fashion Design Awards again in 1972, winning the Merit Award in the High Fashion Daywear category.
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Elizabeth Hurley, "Kitset Clothes Service A Nation Of Dressmakers", National Business Review (New Zealand), 18 April 1979
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Trish Jardine, "Trish Jardine talks fashion with Trish Gregory", Wellington Evening Post (Wellington), 9 December 1976
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in the South Island and a year later she opened a fashion boutique named "The Fig Leaf" on Caroline Bay Hill.
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Award to study in Europe, becoming the first fashion designer in New Zealand to be chosen for this award.
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collections for New Zealand manufacturers both for domestic and export markets, and 'Trish Gregory'
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Staff writer, "Kitset Clothes Take NZ By Storm", Wanganui Chronicle (Whanganui), 23 November 1981
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Paula Ryan, "Designer With Innovative Concept Of Style", The Press (Christchurch), 13 March 1982
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Woman's Dress designed by Trish Gregory, Te Papa Registration Number GH016039,
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for the first time, winning the Merit Award in the Evening Wear category.
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