Mary Quant ran a popular clothes shop in the Kings Road, Chelsea, London called Bazaar, from which she sold her own designs. In the late 1950s she began experimenting with shorter skirts, which resulted in the miniskirt in 1965-one of the defining fashions of the decade.
Owing to Quant’s position in the heart of fashionable “Swinging London”, the miniskirt was able to spread beyond a simple street fashion into a Read the full story

A survey has found that underage drinkers consume more than 175 million drinks a year. Photo posed by models\\Munchkin Management. Photo: Rodger Cummins

Australia’s underage drinkers consume more than 175 million drinks a year and feed $107 million directly into government coffers, according to a new report highlighting “alarming” rates of illegal alcohol consumption.
Specialists from the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre say their findings show “getting pissed” is still a firm priority for young Australians – but the money they spend on drinks is doing nothing to help curb the problem.
“We’ve shown teenage drinking is a big money spinner for the government,” said Dr Christopher Doran, lead author of the study in the Read the full story