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Mother of Miniskirts: Mary Quant
Those bright colors and bold and stylish skirts were born in the
1960s on the London’s most hippie streets. At that time, it coincided with the Beatles published out of their album “Love Me Do”, at the same year, Helen Gurley Brown published a book named “single women and sex”, which was a swing and turbulent times.The inventor is London’s fashion queen Mary Quant. Mary Quant’s design was inspired by BMW 1959 smooth mini-cars. And mini skirts would make London high society very shocked. Those angry men wearing bowler hats with an
umbrella broke down the Mary Quant’s cheap shops windows on the street to show resistance. But “trendy” London still put up with her revolution in the cutting skill.At that time, miniskirts are the performance of young,
liberation and strong. Throughout the 1960s, miniskirts and navel, nipple, flowers, hair became a symbol of women—and in the other end of the world it had made waves: Iran’s miniskirts trend gave the people self-confidence who bound by traditional morals, in Afghanistan and other opening Middle East countries such as Lebanon, Turkey, stylish women wore a mini skirt to claim their independence, and even the former Soviet Union was no exception.Related posts