mary quant invention is almost sixty years old but it still makes a specific fashion statement. for freedom and beauty and they get a little bit of flirting i'm sure like back then people would think it's not cool because you're very conservative. but what the narrative is cool for women to wear is giving one to i think must've been really controversial but it's really cool that it's of. the british fashion designer sparked a genuine revolution in the early one nine hundred sixty s. . original mini skirt hitched up hemlines to at least ten centimeters above the knee and became a symbol of a mass of painted women nine hundred sixty six she was awarded the order of the british empire for her work the mini skirt changed beauty ideals. the new mini was soon personified by a certain leslie hornby better known as twiggy with her bobbed hair and slender figure the model quickly became a style and cultural icon of the swinging sixty's the mini skirt was a polarizer as soon learned in her own shop from the beginning it was a. lot of young men to bring in my girlfriends and raving about e