RIP Mary Quant, the designer who popularized the mini-skirt

LVSteve · Apr 13, 2023

Dame Mary Quant has passed at 93. She brought the mini-skirt to the mass market, with effects both good and bad. She was also the designer who brought us in-your-face colors and block designs. An adept business woman, she branched out into cosmetics for while before selling that concern to a Japanese company.

I'm not going to link the BBC articles as I know at least one moderator has a thigh aversion.

Rustyt1953 · Apr 13, 2023

I often admired her work.

DWalt · Apr 13, 2023

Second only to Hot Pants. Anyone remember the Southwest Airlines stews (that’s what they were called then) all wore orange ones? Spreading Love all over Texas.

martyd · Apr 13, 2023

Yes, I remember.
I always insisted on an Isle Seat. Told them I was claustrophobic sitting next to the window.

rockquarry · Apr 13, 2023

DWalt said:
Second only to Hot Pants. Anyone remember the Southwest Airlines stews (that’s what they were called then) all wore orange ones? Spreading Love all over Texas.

I had a friend in the first stewardess class. Hard to imagine now, but they stayed at a Holiday Inn (I think) on Industrial Blvd. in Dallas. Their schooling may have been there as well. That was all in 1971, late spring or early summer.

The outfit color, I don't remember, maybe it was orange. They had two planes as I recall, and flew to San Antonio and Houston from Love Field. A very tiny airlines 52 years ago.

LVSteve · Apr 13, 2023

Rustyt1953 said:
I often admired her work.

Well yes, on a good day, but it also led to this saying that was quite popular in England.

"80% of women wearing miniskirts, shouldn't."

My father (just call him Mr Picky) was of the opinion that the 80% number was an underestimate.

Rustyt1953 · Apr 13, 2023

LVSteve said:
"80% of women wearing miniskirts, shouldn't."

That also holds true for yoga pants.

targetchief · Apr 13, 2023

Rustyt1953 said:
That also holds true for yoga pants.

Amen

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Rustyt1953 · Apr 13, 2023

Throughout my high school years ('67-'71) I dropped a lot of pencils.

DWalt · Apr 13, 2023

I was in London for a brief period in the late 1960s. Miniskirts with nothing worn beneath were very popular there. Must have been sort of a Scottish thing.

yaktamer · Apr 13, 2023

DWalt said:
Second only to Hot Pants. Anyone remember the Southwest Airlines stews (that’s what they were called then) all wore orange ones? Spreading Love all over Texas.

I miss Herb. Hot pants and Wild Turkey. The man was a visionary.

Dave_n · Apr 13, 2023

LVSteve said:
Dame Mary Quant has passed at 93. She brought the mini-skirt to the mass market, with effects both good and bad. She was also the designer who brought us in-your-face colors and block designs. An adept business woman, she branched out into cosmetics for while before selling that concern to a Japanese company.

I'm not going to link the BBC articles as I know at least one moderator has a thigh aversion.

The reason that the mini-skirt came in in the very early 1960s was that in the UK at that time, purchase tax (think sales taxes in the US) defined a young girl's skirt as being less than 13 inches from top of waist band to bottom of skirt. and was free of any tax. So the MQ mini was less than 13 inches in length. Being a grad student in the UK in the early 1960s, the length was definitely appreciated. One entertaining episode was when graduate supervisor came to check the angle of my traveling microscope (measuring the differences in two manometers) and realized that the scope was "slightly offset" and was aimed at a "female beauty chorus sun-bathing on the University Library steps 300 yds across the Quad!!! Dave_n

oldbrownhat · Apr 13, 2023

Rustyt1953 said:
Throughout my high school years ('67-'71) I dropped a lot of pencils.

LOL. Studying "Quantum" physics in high school

LVSteve said:
"80% of women wearing miniskirts, shouldn't."

Amen. Despite mini skirts being offered many thighses.

swsig · Apr 13, 2023

LVSteve said:
I'm not going to link the BBC articles as I know at least one moderator has a thigh aversion.

Not me. My college fraternity was I Felta Thigh.

Jack Flash · Apr 13, 2023

swsig said:
Not me. My college fraternity was I Felta Thigh.

You were lucky. The only frat that would have me was Tappa Kegga Brew.

Rudi · Apr 13, 2023

The mini skirt, right up there with bottled beer and sliced bread! Great inventions all.

dmn57 · Apr 13, 2023

Rustyt1953 said:
That also holds true for yoga pants.

Yoga pants don't lie...

dmar · Apr 13, 2023

Thank you Mary, thank you very much…

SMSgt · Apr 14, 2023

Rustyt1953 said:
That also holds true for yoga pants.

I find that most women wearing stretch pants shouldn't.

mojave30cal · Apr 15, 2023

When I was in the Navy, my last duty station was Fleet Weather
Facility, London England. I was there from April, 1969 to Jan-
uary 1971. I was a Radioman 2nd Class ( E-5) and I handled
all the classified weather intel that was plotted on maps of
all the targets inside the Soviet Union at the time.

I remember the mini skirts worn by the English ladies as
being really short. There was nothing left to imagination! When
ever I rode the double decker buses I always rode up stairs (if
you get my drift).

RIP Mary Quant, the designer who popularized the mini-skirt

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