Dress
1964/5 (designed)
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Yellow cotton lace dress designed by Mary Quant for Ginger Group. Mary Quant is one of Britain’s most well-known and influential designers. She set up the ready-to-wear label Ginger Group in 1963.
Jenny Fenwick purchased this dress from Peter Robinson’s Top Shop in Sheffield. It was her first Quant purchase and she chose it because ‘Mary Quant seemed to epitomise a style which was different to the norm and meant that teenage girls, like me, didn’t have to look like their Mother’.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Cotton lace and synthetic slip |
| Brief description | Dress, yellow, cotton lace in floral style design, designed by Mary Quant for Ginger Group, Wales, c.1964/5. Worn by Jenny Fenwick. |
| Physical description | Yellow cotton lace dress over synthetic slip. Dress has peterpan collar and cuffs and two applique stars down the centre front. |
| Gallery label | [Mary Quant exhibition, 2019]
LACE DRESS
1964
Worn by Jenny Fenwick
Originally touching the knee and later shortened, this dress exemplifies the girlish, pretty styles central to Quant’s 1964 collections. Jenny Fenwick bought it from the new Top Shop concession in Peter Robinson department store, Sheffield. She felt that, ‘Mary Quant epitomised a style which was different to the norm and meant that teenage girls like me didn’t have to look like their mothers’.
Cotton machine-made lace with acetate under-dress
Labelled ‘Mary Quant’s Ginger Group’
Made by Steinberg, Pontypridd, Wales (probably)
Given by Jenny Fenwick
V&A: T.58-2018(30/02/2020) |
| Credit line | Given by Jenny Fenwick |
| Object history | This object was acquired as part of the V&A's #WeWantQuant campaign. This was a public call-out for objects designed by Mary Quant. This was run as part of the preparation for an exhibition on Mary Quant 2019/2020 |
| Summary | Yellow cotton lace dress designed by Mary Quant for Ginger Group. Mary Quant is one of Britain’s most well-known and influential designers. She set up the ready-to-wear label Ginger Group in 1963. Jenny Fenwick purchased this dress from Peter Robinson’s Top Shop in Sheffield. It was her first Quant purchase and she chose it because ‘Mary Quant seemed to epitomise a style which was different to the norm and meant that teenage girls, like me, didn’t have to look like their Mother’. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | T.58-2018 |
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| Record created | July 25, 2018 |
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