Dame - the British queen of Swinging Sixties fashion who introduced mini skirts and hot pants to the world - died peacefully at home today aged 93.The south-east designer famously declared she 'didn't have time to wait for women's lib' so began a fashion revolution to rescue young women of the 1950s and 1960s from being forced to dress like their mothers for another generation.Dame Mary raised hemlines to audacious heights, pioneered sack dresses and turned women's trousers and tights into wardrobe staples as well as popularising the bob haircut pioneered by her great friend Vidal Sassoon.
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