Old Actors Comment On The Mini Jupe

In 1965, Mary Quant put the miniskirt in her collection, the success was immediate with young people , first as a symbol of Swinging London , very quickly then in Europe and then in the Western world  , thanks among others to Jean Shrimpton : if the miniskirt was born in London in the Quant store, it is the photo - scandalous at the time but worldwide widespread - of Jean Shrimpton at the Melboune Cup in Australia that will really popularize it  . In the United States, Edie Sedgwick stood out in New York with this outfit  . Some countries like the Netherlandswill ban the miniskirt, finding it much too provocative