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Her youthful easy-to-wear clothing became so popular that in 1963,  she  launched a lower-priced  ready-to-wear range called  'Ginger Group'. She also entered  into licensing agreements with  manufacturers to produce hosiery,  underwear, cosmetics and   accessories bearing her name.  Almost anyone, whatever their income, could spare the money to buy a pair of 'Mary Quant'  stockings or a lipstick. This enabled girls who could not  otherwise  afford her clothing to  feel in touch with fashion, and made Mary Quant a household name.\r\n\nBy 1970, Mary Quant and her business partners closed the Bazaar boutiques to focus on the licencing business, although Quant continued to design good quality ready-to-wear fashion  retailed in department stores and independent boutiques under her own name. This outfit comes from the wardrobe of Pamela Howard Mace (1932-2008), who had a long career in fashion, after starting work in London for the magazine <i>Home Notes,</i> at the age of  sixteen. She moved to South Africa for a while, but returned to London in 1962, where she worked for Mary Quant as her PA, becoming design director in 1968 until  the late 1970s. The surviving clothes from her time at Mary Quant show the evolution of the Quant style, from minimal mod fashion in the 1960s, through to the more vintage-inspired designs and synthetic textiles of the mid-1970s.\r\n","physicalDescription":"Ensemble of long sleeved jersey top, machine-knitted acrylic, with laced closure at neckline and matching knickerbockers, Mary Quant, c.1974","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Mary Quant","id":"A2349"},"association":{"text":"designer","id":"x36960"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"Steinberg and Sons","id":"AUTH350851"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":"There was a separate Steinberg knitwear factory in the East Midlands"}],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"acrylic","id":"AAT14426"}],"techniques":[{"text":"machine-knitting","id":"AAT252068"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"","categories":[{"text":"Clothing","id":"THES48975"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"T&F","id":"THES48601"},"images":["2018LB9033","2018LB9029","2018LB9034","2018LB9035","2018LB9036"],"imageResolution":"low","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"016","id":"THES305872"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""},{"current":{"text":"016","id":"THES305872"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"top","id":"THES259505"}],[{"text":"knickerbockers","id":"AAT214558"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[],"productionDates":[],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by Linda Kirby in memory of her godmother, Pamela Howard Mace","dimensions":[],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Worn by Pamela Howard Mace (1932-2008)","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Ensemble of long sleeved jersey top, machine-knitted, with laced closure at neckline and matching knickerbockers, Mary Quant, c.1974","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Illustrated in <i>Mary Quant</i> (V&A, London, 2019) fig. 164, page 182"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"TUNIC AND KNICKERBOCKERS\r\n1971\r\n\r\n\r\nAs shown in the nearby photograph, Pamela Howard-Mace, like other Mary Quant employees, wore the company look well. Quant enjoyed the broad range of coloured and patterned knitted textiles available in the early 1970s, often combining them with hotpants or pop-style knickerbockers like these.\r\n\r\n\r\nAcrylic and wool mix, machine knitted\r\nLabelled ‘Mary Quant’\r\nMade in the Mary Quant sample workroom, London\r\n(probably)\r\nGiven by Linda Kirby in memory of her godmother,\r\nPamela Howard-Mace\r\nV&A: T.28:1&2-2013\r\n","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null}}],"partNumbers":["T.28:1-2013","T.28:2-2013"],"accessionNumberNum":"28","accessionNumberPrefix":"T","accessionYear":2013,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-09","recordCreationDate":"2013-03-07","availableToBook":true}}