Pat Hewitt
Pat Hewitt (nee Warhurst, 1927-2012) was born in Clyde, and grew up in Alexandra. Pat was a self-taught sewer and recalled making her first princess line cotton dress aged about 12 or 13.
Pat Hewitt (née Warhurst, 1927-2012) was a self-taught dressmaker and designer and trained teacher.
In London she supported herself for a time from her designing and dressmaking, but returned to Central Otago to live. Her label, One Only, was stocked at the family store Hewitt’s Drapery in Alexandra, and in Dunedin, at Margaret Farry-Williams’ Vanity Walk shop and Society Gowns.
Eden Hore met Pat Hewitt at one of the garden parties she held to promote her clothing label, and the two became collaborators. Eden Hore not only purchased gowns from her, but arranged for her to make up designs in fabrics he purchased to add to the collection of ‘high and exotic fashion’.
