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1963: Mary Quant asks 'are you a square?'

British fashion designer Mary Quant said that it was vital that young women keep experimenting and changing with fashion.

Quant made clothes that appealed to a new generation of women who did not want to dress like their mothers.

She was credited with designing the miniskirt, which came to epitomise these new liberated women and helped to define the Swinging '60s.

In 1963, she spoke to The Public Ear, a 大象传媒 show young people tuned into to understand the rapid changes in music, film, fashion and culture that the UK was experiencing.

Listen to James Peak and Joan Bakewell talk about some incredible The Public Ear archive in the Radio 4 show A Year in the Life of the Swinging Sixties.

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