Dress
Designer
Mary Quant
(British, 1930 - 2023)
c.1967
Grey wool / rayon blend and grey and white argyle knit
Museum purchase
Object number96.85.1
When 21-year-old Mary Quant opened her boutique, Bazaar, in the Chelsea section of London in 1955, she was catering to the needs of her peers: London’s youth. She recalled in her autobiography that young people had grown weary of wearing essentially the same fashions “as their mothers.” Throughout the late 1950s and 1960s, young people gravitated toward Quant’s novel “fun clothes.”
DescriptionDrop-waist jumper dress with grey wool / rayon V-neck bodice and contrasting A-line skirt in grey and white argyle knit; black bodice buttons; pocket flapsExhibitions