"Life as I know it now began for me when I met Plunket....
His arrival had an enormous effect on everybody. He really was quite something... He was very long and lean. He seemed to have no clothes of his own. He wore his mother's pyjama tops as shirts, generally in that colour known as old gold which usually comes - as they say in the trade we're know in - in shantung.
His trousers also came out of his mother's wardrobe. Beautifully cut and very sleek fitting, the zip was at the side and they were in weird and wonderful variations of purple, prune, crimson and putty. The trouble was that they came to a stop half-way down the calf of the leg so there was always a wide gap of white flesh between the tops of the Chelsea-type boots he wore and the end of the trouser leg.
...He lived in Chelsea; he had a house all the himself because his mother was convalescing in the country; he played jazz on the trumpet; was thought to take drugs; and boasted the wildest parties in London."
His arrival had an enormous effect on everybody. He really was quite something... He was very long and lean. He seemed to have no clothes of his own. He wore his mother's pyjama tops as shirts, generally in that colour known as old gold which usually comes - as they say in the trade we're know in - in shantung.
His trousers also came out of his mother's wardrobe. Beautifully cut and very sleek fitting, the zip was at the side and they were in weird and wonderful variations of purple, prune, crimson and putty. The trouble was that they came to a stop half-way down the calf of the leg so there was always a wide gap of white flesh between the tops of the Chelsea-type boots he wore and the end of the trouser leg.
...He lived in Chelsea; he had a house all the himself because his mother was convalescing in the country; he played jazz on the trumpet; was thought to take drugs; and boasted the wildest parties in London."
Quant by Quant,
Mary Quant.
Mary Quant.
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