Jean-Paul Belmondo and-a Mary Quant got Stoned to say the least

Mary Quant apparently passed away yesterday at the age of 93 in England.  I have been aware of her role in England of the 1960s and fame as a promoter of the miniskirt.

However, I am not a fashionista.  But I am a Donovan devotee and he has a song, Sunny South Kensington of that period and which mentions Mary Quant.

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Sunny South Kensington

by Donovan

Come take a walk in sunny South Kensington

Any day of the week

See the girl with the silk Chinese blouse on

You know she ain't no freak 

 

Come loon soon down Cromwell Road, man

You got to spread your wings

A-flip out, skip out, trip-out, and a-make your stand, folks

To dig me as I sing 

 

Jean-Paul Belmondo and-a Mary Quant got

Stoned to say the least

Ginsberg, he ended up-a dry and so

He a-took a trip out East 

 

If I'm a-late waitin' down the gate, it's such a 'raz' scene

A groovy place to live

In the Portobella I met a fella with a cane umbrella

Who must've used a sieve 

 

So come loon soon down Cromwell Road, man

You got to spread your wings

A-flip out, skip out, trip-out and a-make your stand, folks

To dig me as I sing 

 

Come take a walk in sunny South Kensington

Any day of the week

Come see the girl with the silk Chinese blouse on

You know she ain't no freak 

 

If I'm a-late waitin' down the gate, it's such a 'raz' scene

A groovy place to live

In the Portobella I met a fella with a cane umbrella

Who must've used a sieve 

 

Jean-Paul Belmondo and-a Mary Quant got

Stoned to say the least

Ginsberg, he ended up-a dry and so

He a-took a trip out East 

 

Come loon soon down Cromwell Road, man

You got, you got to spread your wings, yeah

See the girl with the silk Chinese blouse on, yeah

You know she ain't no freak