Mod & Mini Skirts
It's from 1964, before you were born.
- Era
- 1960s
- Peak
- 1964–1970
- Signature
- the miniskirt + geometric mod look
- Revived
- '90s Britpop mod revival; 2010s
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About
As of 2026, it's 62 years old.
The 1960s took one look at the hemline and said 'higher.' The miniskirt, popularized by London designer Mary Quant, scandalized parents and thrilled everyone under 25 by ending well above the knee — a few inches of fabric that somehow felt like a full-blown revolution.
Paired with the sharp, geometric, color-blocked 'mod' look and modeled by waifish icons like Twiggy, it made Swinging London the center of the fashion universe. The entire point was to look modern, young, and faintly dangerous to the establishment.
The mod silhouette keeps coming back — Britpop in the '90s, the runways in the 2010s — but it will forever belong to Carnaby Street and a generation determined to dress nothing like its parents.
Mod & Mini Skirts through the years
Swinging London
Mary Quant and Carnaby Street push the miniskirt and mod look.
Twiggy era
The look becomes the global face of '60s youth.
Britpop revival
Oasis-era Britain brings mod styling back.
