Miniskirt no consensus as to who designed it first. Valerie Steele has noted that the claim that Quant was first is more convincingly supported by evidence than the equivalent Courrèges claim. However, the contemporary fashion journalist Marit Allen, who edited the influential "Young Ideas" pages for UK "Vogue", firmly stated that the British designer John Bates was the first to offer fashionable miniskirts. Other designers, including Pierre Cardin and Yves Saint Laurent, had also been raising hemlines at the same time. The miniskirt is one of the garments most widely associated with Mary Quant. Quant herself is ambivalent about the claim
Made in the Shade Made in the Shade Made in the Shade, released in 1975, is the first official compilation album by The Rolling Stones during their Atlantic Records contract. It covers material from "Sticky Fingers" (1971), "Exile on Main St." (1972), "Goats Head Soup" (1973) and "It's Only Rock 'n' Roll" (1974). The Stones had two previous "official" compilation albums on Decca Records, "Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass)" in 1966 and "Through The Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2)" in 1969. In addition, 1971's "Hot Rocks 1964-1971" and 1972's "More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies)" were released by Allen