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Artist/Maker	Mary Quant Ltd Mary Quant (designed)
Place of origin	England (made) London (designed)

Mary Quant is one of Britain’s most well-known and influential designers. She designed this day dress in around 1963. an interesting variation on Quant’s ‘Peachy’ design, another version of which is held in the V&A collection (T.27-1997). Exaggerated armholes indicate it was designed to be worn as a pinafore. This dress was worn by Annabel Mackay (née Taylor) a former employee of Mary Quant.

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Categories	Womenswear Womenswear Fashion London Ready-to-Wear
Object type	Dress
Materials and techniques	wool Wool Sewing
Brief description	Dress, pale pink wool, sleevelss, pinafore-style, designed by Mary Quant, England, c.1963
Physical description	'Shrimp' coloured wool day dress. Pinafore-style without sleeves and low arm-holes. Stitching down centre-front and deep pleat.
Gallery label	(30/02/2020) PINAFORE DRESS 1963–64 Worn by Annabel Mackay (née Taylor) Annabel Taylor ‘enjoyed every minute’ working for Mary Quant, wearing samples like this pinafore in ‘shrimp’ tweed, a typical Quant fabric in both name and colour. Her experience was ‘an eyeopener’, sartorially and socially, ‘so different from Big Department Store behaviour’. Taylor ran the wholesale showroom, and chose designs to retail in Bazaar from other forward-thinking London designers such as Jean Muir, Gerald McCann and Roger Nelson. Wool tweed (modern sweater) Labelled ‘Mary Quant London’ Made in London Given by Annabel Mackay V&A: T.65- 2018
Credit line	Given by Annabel Mackay
Object history	Design similar to 'Peachy' - T.27-1997.
Summary	Mary Quant is one of Britain’s most well-known and influential designers. She designed this day dress in around 1963. an interesting variation on Quant’s ‘Peachy’ design, another version of which is held in the V&A collection (T.27-1997). Exaggerated armholes indicate it was designed to be worn as a pinafore. This dress was worn by Annabel Mackay (née Taylor) a former employee of Mary Quant.
Collection	Textiles and Fashion Collection
Accession number	T.65-2018

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Record created	June 7, 2018
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1441914/dress-mary-quant/

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