Mary Quant opens Bazaar
1955 · Event
Mary Quant and Alexander Plunket Greene open a boutique on the King's Road, selling young, playful clothes that lead to the miniskirt.
On these timelines: United Kingdom (combined), Arts and Thoughts, Women in history, Master
More from United Kingdom (combined)
- Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace (1851)
- Death of Henry VIII (1547)
- Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain begins (450)
- Bloody Sunday in Derry (1972)
- Death of Queen Elizabeth II (2022)
- UK joins the EEC (1973)
- Brexit (2016)
Around 1955
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Korean War (1950)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)