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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.","physicalDescription":"A front-fastening top of red cotton printed with white spots, sleeveless and cut to tie at the waist. 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