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1965: London's#1 Supermodel Jean Shrimpton knocks 'em dead At Melbourne's Famed racetack Spring Racing Carnival in a mini-dress! It caused a major sensation. Photojournalists went to town capturing 'the Shrimp's' bare legs....Down Under??!! The day's winning nag did not make the front page that day...and lasses in Australia never looked back: ON the sweltering 94-F. spring afternoon, she was wearing none of the mandatory accessories for the racetrack members’ enclosure – her hat, gloves and stockings were missing. Even more shocking, her dress finished five inches above her knees.
Following her appearance, the front page of The Sun newspaper raged: “There she was, the world’s highest-paid fashion model, snubbing the iron-clad conventions of fashionable Flemington mavens with a dress five inches above the knee – NO hat, NO gloves and NO stockings!”
Derby Day racegoers were horrified. The press clamoured for photos and, within days, the story of the model in the mini had ignited global controversy. IMHO: at £2000 a shoot, an enormous sum for the time, equivalent to at least a year's wages for the average Australian man and gauged by a comparison with The Beatles, who had been paid £1500 for their tour of Australia in June 1964, she did her job..."when ya got it, flaunt it" In Australia, it became an inspiration as young women took up the new fashion, accompanied by predictable media consternation. In hindsight-50 years later, what was the fuss!