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Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation. Do you know who's having a

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Speaker 1: birthday this week? In light of it being Melbourne Cup

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Speaker 1: Derby Day kind of weak as well our lap No

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Speaker 1: Jean Shrimpton. Jean Shrimpton. Jean Shrimpton was the one who

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Speaker 1: turned up in a miniskirt. You may remember it in

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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty five. That's an iconic image. She was in

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Speaker 1: a dress that was above the knee. She wore no stockings,

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Speaker 1: no hat, no gloves, and every other woman around there

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Speaker 1: looked like they were Edna Everidge dressed up in comparison,

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Speaker 1: that was dressed like the Queen with the old lady adds,

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Speaker 1: the gloves, the handbags. Cranky faces, they're cranky faces. I

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Speaker 1: always thought that she wore this to Melbourne Cup, but

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Speaker 1: it was Derby Day. So she's just turned eighty one.

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Speaker 1: Amazing if she's still rocking the mini. Well here's the

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Speaker 1: story about how it happened. She was employed to come

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Speaker 1: out here by DuPont, who make materials and things, particularly

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Speaker 1: to Champion Orion, which was DuPont's novel acrylic textile. So

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Speaker 1: she was supplied with the fabric. She had her London

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Speaker 1: tailor Kraft Heve wardrivee. They faced with a fabric shortage,

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Speaker 1: so they opted for a shorter hemline ten centimeters above

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Speaker 1: the knee on her white shift dress, a radical departure

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Speaker 1: from the norm. One of the big things here was

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Speaker 1: that she commanded a staggering fee of two thousand pounds

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Speaker 1: for her two weeks stint. This figure dwarfed the annual

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Speaker 1: salary of the average Australian man and so passed what

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Speaker 1: the Beatles earned on their Australian two of the previous

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Speaker 1: Yearly Yeah, but it worked. Her engagement was a strategic

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Speaker 1: move to captivate the female attendees in particular, and it worked.

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Speaker 1: On Derby Day, October thirty, nineteen sixty five, that iconic

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Speaker 1: image shrimped and decided to forego stockings due to the heat.

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Speaker 1: Eschewed formalities, no hat, no gloves. She descended from her hotel,

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Speaker 1: unaware of the stir she was about to cause. Her

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Speaker 1: boyfriend was Terence Stamp, the actor, that incredibly handsome, suave man.

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Speaker 1: He was in Superman one on two, was the batty

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Speaker 1: he was in Priscilla, but he was also in all

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Speaker 1: those spaghetti western I think of the same map seems

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Speaker 1: like a poor man's clyd eastward, but with great sexy swagger.

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Speaker 1: So there they were, as it says here, they cast

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Speaker 1: a striking image amidst the traditionally garbed attendees. So her

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Speaker 1: outfit was deemed shockingly casual. It drew overt disdain, a

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Speaker 1: barrage of cat calls and geers from the crowd. But

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Speaker 1: what it did, but this moment rippled across the nation

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Speaker 1: and the world. It was a watershed moment in women's fashion,

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Speaker 1: catalyzing said the word catalyzing. The miniskirts rise on the

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Speaker 1: world stage, and it kind of was a big part

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Speaker 1: of pop culture, the longing for liberty, coolness and grace

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Speaker 1: embodied by the Shrimp as she became known. And you

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Speaker 1: look at that outfit now, it's quite demure compared to

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Speaker 1: what we see. Even men were allowed to wear shorts

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Speaker 1: this year as Melbourne Cup. And then you see, you know,

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Speaker 1: we see the aftermath, women lying on their backs with

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Speaker 1: no shoes on, spewing into the fascinators. We've come along while,

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Speaker 1: didn't We just