What did you wear in the revolution, Gran? How Mary Quant set women free
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By Janice Breen Burns
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Most of the 200,000 people who jostled through the Mary Quant exhibition in London’s Victoria and Albert Museum during the eight months of its tenure in 2019-20 were women and girls. V&A curator Jenny Lister says the museum hummed with good vibes and a kind of joyous white noise as visitors fanned into its thickets of groovy miniskirts, tights, hotpants and go-go boots from the legendary designer’s 1960s collections, onto its cool-man maxis and pantsuits as Quant’s revolutionary legacy tapered towards circa 1975.