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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. \n\nJenny 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’.","physicalDescription":"Yellow cotton lace dress over synthetic slip. Dress has peterpan collar and cuffs and two applique stars down the centre front. 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