A Question of Costume: Aspects of Dress and Performance

Allan Thomas is an ethnomusicologist specializing in Pacific Island and Asian musics in the School of Music, Victoria University of Wellington. He has written on 19th century music in New Zealand, and having edited the Journal of Joseph Lowe is engaged in research into the Lowe family in New Zealand.

Jane Woodhall is a freelance costume designer whose recent work includes the historical pageant Waitangi (1990), the film The Governor, The Royal New Zealand Ballet's Swan Lake (1985) and many productions of Wellington Opera, Downstage and Circa Theatres.