Quant Introduces the Miniskirt
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Arts and Culture Series
- Categories: Women’s Issues, Arts
- Subcategories: Fashion, Clothing
- Curriculum: Women’s History, 20th & 21st Century European History, British History
- Geographical Location: London
- Date: The early 1960’s
Article abstract: Mary Quant’s effective marketing of the miniskirt started a fashion revolution that glorified youthful sexuality and freed a generation of designers from constraints of the hemline.
Summary of Event
Mary Quant began raising the hemlines of her own skirts a decade before the miniskirt defined 1960’s fashion, simply because she hated the long skirts fashionable in postwar London, where she was an art student at Goldsmith’s College of Art. Quant never let convention stand in her way. She knew what she liked, and she did not hesitate,...
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