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Harlow having fun with some blocks I got at the flea market.
Dress and shoes: vintage Mary Quant for Daisy
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Swinging London: A Lifestyle Revolution | Terence Conran – Mary Quant
8 February – 2 June 2019
Fashion and Textile Museum
83 Bermondsey Street
London SE1 3XF
Swinging London: A Lifestyle Revolution | Terence Conran – Mary Quant
8 February – 2 June 2019
Fashion and Textile Museum
83 Bermondsey Street
London SE1 3XF
....and one day little white points kept falling from the blue sky.
The Mary Quant Invasion had just started...
Model: Rossana
Rome, October 2014
A quote from the 1966 autobiography of Mary Quant. The statement covers a wall on the corner of the Kings Road at Chelsea in Bloom.
"The swinging 60’s was a revolution for fashion and was a decade which really broke traditions. This decade included the creation of the mini skirt and the bikini, it was the period where women really stood up for what they believed in and it showed through their choice of clothes. Clothes were used as a means of expression."
I found this lovely picture of Mary Quant painting doll heads in a photography book at my dad's flat. It's nice to know she was a doll freak too!!
The book is "The Complete Photography Course", by Michael Joseph and Dave Saunders, edited in Spain by Leopold Blume. No copyright infringement intended, I will remove if asked.
In 1965 Mary Quant invented the "Mini Skirt" or took credit for it and also "Hot Pants" which we maybe seeing next month ;)
She at least named the look after her favorite car the Mini!
You can find the Audio here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F93ywiGMDnQ&list=RDF93ywiGMDn...
All you got is this moment
Twenty-first century's yesterday
You can care all you want
Everybody does yeah that's okay
So slide over here
And give me a moment
Your moves are so raw
I've got to let you know
I've got to let you know
You're one of my kind
I need you tonight
'Cause I'm not sleeping
There's something about you girl
That makes me sweat
You can find the Audio here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=azfG5H-pCVg&list=RDazfG5H-pCV...
Live, baby live
Now that the day is over
I got a new sensation
Mmm, perfect moments
But so impossible to refuse
Sleep, baby, sleep
Now that the night is over
And the sun comes like a god
Into our room
All perfect light and promises
Got a hold on you
A new sensation (a new sensation)
Right now
It's gonna take you over
A new sensation (a new sensation)
........ the mini skirt, Courrèges, white knee-high boots, the Mini and all that was good about the "Swinging Sixties" ? ..........
........ then you're a lot older than I thought you were !!!! ;o))))
Cupcakes fondant iced and decorated.
Photo on the Left:
LIFE: The '60s. 1989. Edited by Doris C. O'Neil. Boston: Bulfinch Press, 131. (Photography taken by: Vernon Merritt III, 1969.)
Photo in the Center:
American Decades: 1960-1969. 1995. Edited by Richard Layman. New York: Gale Research International Limited, 156. (Photography Courtesy of: Popperfoto.)
Photo on the Right:
Personal photograph taken in the 1960s of Chuck Thompson (my father) with his cousin, Sharon, and brother, Everett.
In the decade before, the shortest item of clothing to be found on a woman’s body was her shorts. Even then in some towns, such as White Plains, NY, a woman could be handed summons by police simply for sporting what societies deemed as violations of their rules for proper attire for women. From cheerleaders to the household mom, the length of all skirts and dresses seemed to fall slightly below the knee (LIFE: The '50s 1998). Additionally, the shape usually found it’s tightest point at empire waistlines, falling from there with either sack-like or an extreme poof along with the use of petticoats (think of "I Love Lucy"). The woman’s body saw new revelations of skin, form, and fit when the 60’s rolled around. From 1963 onward, the hemline of dresses and skirts had gradually been finding their way up the thigh, as they rose from initially slightly above the knee, to barely there by the end of the decade (American Decades: 1960-1969 1995).
The shortening of the hemline began first with the miniskirts, and moved outward from there (American Decades: 1960-1969 1995). Its creator, Mary Quant, a British fashion designer, soon went from simple shop owner to “mother of the miniskirt" with her discovery which she claimed was already on the streets before being created by her. In the previous years she had been outfitting her surrounding British youth, but it was not until she stumbled upon the miniskirt that she was propelled into international fame. This new creation became a new code of conduct (Farber 2001). Women may have been moving away from the etiquette of the 50s but they still desired to maintain some respectability, at least initially. Girls of all ages from young teenagers to older woman grasping onto the faint promise that the mini would provide them with that splash of youth they so desired soon began learning the art of walking, sitting, picked up things, and avoiding stairwells at all costs (LIFE: The 60s 1989).
The skirt was not the only things to find new heights above the knee. Dresses were soon following the same trend, with the introduction of the “mini dress” . Once again these dresses went against their predecessors, not only in length but also in form and fit. No longer was there the sack-like feel, or the bellowing out of the original dresses and skirts of the 50’s. With this time period, dresses and skirts abandoned their mid waste pooch for an all over form fit and a more gradual drifting away. With fit alone, a cleaner line was formed, something that in and of itself would soon become so characteristic of the 60’s focus on lines and geometry, as the mini soon gave way to the mod look. The lengths may have been similar, but they still provided each owner with their own individuality (American Decades: 1960-1969 1995).
Combined with “long hair, youth and clean cut casualness," one could exhibit what came to be known as the New York look, (LIFE: The 60s 1989) (pictured on the far left). The 60’s saw explosion of all over color, something from which, even dresses were not excluded. In the fifties, outrageous patterns seems to be left strictly for below the knee; with the fad of the time, the circle skirt, however, with the burst of color in the 60’s, one could sport the sleekness and geometry of the mod look from neck to upper leg, or a full pattern (center picture), or a more conservative plain and simple (worn by my cousin, in the far right picture).
American Decades: 1960-1969. 1995. Edited by Richard Layman. New York: Gale Research International Limited.
Farber, David, and Beth Bailey. The Columbia Guide To: America in the 1960s. 2001. New York: Columbia University Press.
LIFE: The '50s. 1998. Edited by Loretta Britten and Sarah Brash. Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books.
LIFE: The '60s. 1989. Edited by Doris C. O'Neil. Boston: Bulfinch Press.
For further information on Miniskirts: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miniskirt
For further information on Mary Quant: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Quant
For further information on 1960 Fashions: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960s_in_fashion