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That first suit I wore on stage had been made at Richard Hunt Tailors in Pitt Street, Sydney, some time in the 1970s. As a small child with a massive forehead I sat while my father Philip, a solicitor from Queanbeyan, was measured for a suit upstairs, a navy woollen three-piece with a chalky blue stripe.
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Murphy, M. (2015). Suitable Material. In: Gibson, R. (eds) The Memory of Clothes. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-953-1_15
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