Woman's three piece ensemble

This Safari-style three piece outfit consists of a jacket and a choice of either a skirt or a pair of jodpur-style pants made from a heavy pin-stripped cotton. While the jacket is a size 12, the skirt and pants are a size 14.

Based in Auckland, Thornton Hall was a large scale manufacturing company operated by Brian Hall and Isabel Harris, the designer behind the very popular Hullaballoo label. In the early 1980s, the couple reinvented the Thornton Hall label, which in the 1970s had been primarily associated with raincoats, as a directional yet affordable fashion label aimed at working women between the ages of 18 and 35.

At its height, the company had 14 Thornton Hall stores throughout the country and exported to Australia.  In 1987 Thornton Hall was invited to design the new Air New Zealand uniform.