Mary Quant Raincoat

Raincoat //Mary Quant (1934-) //1963 // PVC //Remade 1973
Lent by the Museum of Costume, Bath // Given by Mary Quant

In 1963 Mary Quant showed a collection of her designs in Paris, the international capital of fashion, for the first time. The show included the famous 'Wet Collection', the result of Quant's experiments with PVC. It had taken two years of manufacturing trials to bond the seams of PVC garments successfully.