Editing Mary Quant (section)

==Early life==
Barbara Mary Quant was born on 11 February 1930<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.biography.com/fashion-designer/mary-quant#synopsis | title=Mary Quant – Clothes, Miniskirt & Fashion | date=3 June 2020 | access-date=13 April 2023 | archive-date=13 April 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413125132/https://www.biography.com/fashion-designer/mary-quant#synopsis | url-status=live }}</ref><ref group="notes">The Mary Quant exhibition at the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]] in 2019–20 stated her year of birth as 1930, and that she became a student at [[Goldsmiths, University of London|Goldsmiths College]] around 1950. However, the sleeve to her own autobiography (2012) gives the year as 1934, a date that has been widely cited over the years. Obituaries in April 2023 seemed universally to have accepted that she was 93 when she died: in other words, that she was born on 11 February 1930.</ref> in [[Woolwich, London]], the daughter of Jack Quant and Mildred Jones. Her parents, who both came from Welsh mining families, had received scholarships to a grammar school and had been awarded [[first-class honours degree]]s at [[Cardiff University]] before moving to London to work as schoolteachers.<ref name=indepobit>{{Cite web|date=2023-04-13|title=Mary Quant: Mother of the miniskirt|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/mary-quant-dies-miniskirt-carnaby-biography-b1995291.html|access-date=2024-01-20|website=The Independent|language=en|archive-date=13 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413204107/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/mary-quant-dies-miniskirt-carnaby-biography-b1995291.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Designers">{{cite book|author1=Polan, Brenda|author2=Tredre, Roger|title=The Great Fashion Designer|url=https://archive.org/details/greatfashiondesi0000pola|url-access=registration|pages=[https://archive.org/details/greatfashiondesi0000pola/page/103 103]–04|publisher=Berg|location=New York|year=2009|isbn=978-1-84788-228-8}}</ref> She had a younger brother, John Antony Quant (who became a dental officer in the [[Royal Air Force]]), with whom she was evacuated to Kent during the [[Second World War]].<ref name=indepobit/>

Quant attended [[Blackheath High School]]. For college, her desire had been to study fashion; however, her parents dissuaded her from that course of study, and she instead studied [[illustration]] and art education at [[Goldsmiths, University of London|Goldsmiths College]] for which she received a degree in 1953. In pursuit of her love for fashion, after finishing her degree, she was apprenticed to [[Erik Braagaard]], a high-class [[Mayfair]] [[Hatmaking|milliner]] on [[Brook Street]] next door to [[Claridge's]] Hotel.<ref name="Designers"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Mary Quant|url=http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/fashion/features/1960s/fashion_designers/mary_quant/index.html|access-date=24 February 2011|work=[[Victoria and Albert Museum]] website|publisher=[[Victoria and Albert Museum]]|year=2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090914124204/http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/fashion/features/1960s/fashion_designers/mary_quant/index.html|archive-date=14 September 2009}}</ref><ref name=lisa>{{cite news|last=Armstrong|first=Lisa|title=Mary Quant: 'You have to work at staying slim – but it's worth it'|url=http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG9087300/Mary-Quant-You-have-to-work-at-staying-slim-but-its-worth-it.html|access-date=17 October 2013|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=17 February 2012|archive-date=6 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131206033759/http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG9087300/Mary-Quant-You-have-to-work-at-staying-slim-but-its-worth-it.html|url-status=live}}</ref>