How Did Mary Quant Use The Mini Skirt

Emma Hyatt

Mr. Kearney

Honors English 1

27 april 2018 Mary Quant and the Mini skirt When the mini skirt was first introduced some mistaked the design as a lack of fabric. Despite this, it went on to revolutionize the fashion and culture of the 1960’s. Without Mary Quant’s mini skirt we would most likely not have the fashion we have today. Mary Quant brought great freedom to women through her fashion. She was inspired by fashion she saw on the street and the simplicity of mens clothing. For Quant however, it was her customers who designed the mini skirt. They repeatedly demanded that she raise the hemlines of her designs and she soon ended up with the mini skirt. The mini skirt was worn as a social statement and a way to reflect new ideas about society. The mini skirt is more than it may appear and has lots of history connected to it. Pioneered by Mary Quant, the mini

Instead of hobble skirts, girdles and stiff lacquered hair, Mary Quant designed new clothing such as the mini skirt. They were clothes in which women could walk and live freely. They liberated women from fuss of regular constricting clothes. There clothes now reflected the more liberated views of the 1960s. Mary Quant and many others would often talk about the freedom wearing short clothes brought them. Quant used the example of when she was running to catch a bus or dancing. The mini skirt was also heavily rooted in the women’s liberation movement and youth culture. Young girls were expected to settle down and began raising families as soon as they left home however they wanted to live a more enjoyable life and soon began to establish their own identities and communities with their own views and ideas. They broke away from their parents' traditions and beliefs. While it had been around for a long time, feminism found its name and footing in the '60s. To many the mini skirt was a flag for the beliefs of