Mary Quant, Mini Skirt And Hot Pants Pioneer, Passes On At 93

Mary Quant, the British queen of Swinging Sixties fashion, who also popularised miniskirts and hot pants, has passed on peacefully at her home on Thursday at the age of 93.

Freshreporters had noted that the British fashion designer, Mary Quant started a fashion revolution because she didn’t have time to wait for women’s liberation and wanted to free young women in the 1950s and 1960s from having to continue dressing like their respective mothers.

The bereaved pioneered sack dresses and turned women’s trousers and tights into wardrobe staples, as well as popularising the bob haircut pioneered by her friend, hairdresser Vidal Sassoon.

Among Quant’s revolutionary designs were sleeveless shift dresses, PVC raincoats, Peter Pan collars, skinny-rib sweaters, block-coloured tights, and jumpsuits.

Mary Quant, who named the miniskirt after her preferred brand of car, recalled its “feeling of freedom and liberation” in 2014.

She said,

“ It was the girls on King’s Road who invented the mini. I was making clothes which would let you run and dance and we would make them the length the customer wanted. I wore them very short and the customers would say, “shorter, shorter”.’