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With over 7 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common.

Every day, we all get dressed. Welcome to Dress, the history of fashion, a podcast which

explores the who-what win of why we wear. We are fashion historians and your host,

Cassidy Zachary, and April Callahan. So earlier this week, we aired an episode on the legendary

fashion brand, Beba, which burned also bright on the London fashion scene between the years of 1963

and 1975. And amidst our discussion of Beba, we also referenced Mary Quant, a couple of times,

Cass. Yes, we did. And we know that we've gotten a lot of new listeners since we last aired the

Mary Quant episode two and a half years ago. Where does time go? Question mark.

So, and there's actually a coming Mary Quant documentary coming out, so keep your eyes and

ears open for that. But Dress listeners, we thought it might be fun to re-air our Mary Quant

episode in lieu of our regular Thursday mini-sode to pay tribute to this incredible period of fashion

history when fashion was youth driven coming up from the streets instead of trickling down from

the oat co-tier. So bust out those mini skirts, knee-high booths, and get groovy Dress listeners,

here comes Mary Quant. April, when I say 1960s fashion, what first comes to mind?

Well, basically the first thing that comes to mind is sex, drugs, and a rock and roll baby.

Yes, the sixties is this incredible period of experimentation and upheaval of established

social orders across the board. So many exciting changes were happening in the ways of art and

music and fashion. Of course, made all the more revelatory and important when viewed through

the lens of the overarching changes in society that were then also taking place. So the sixties is

of course the period of the Vietnam War and the American Civil Rights Movement. The sixties

was a time when people and young people especially stood up and demanded change to the standards that

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