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Australian fashion designer

Prue Acton, OBE (born 26 April 1943)^[1] is an Australian fashion designer, often referred to as "Australia's golden girl of fashion" during the 1960s.

Early life

Prudence Leigh Acton was born in Benalla, Victoria and educated at Firbank Anglican Girls' Grammar School in Melbourne.

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Between 1958 and 1962 she completed a Diploma of Art majoring in Printed Textiles^[2] at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. She married Michael Charles Treloar in 1966. On 19 September 1966 they had their first child, Tiffany Leigh Treloar and, a few years later, they had their second child, Atlanta Priscilla Treloar.

Career

In 1963 Acton established her own fashion design business in Flinders Lane, Melbourne, and by age 21 she was turning over 350 designs a year and selling an average of 1,000 dresses a week through 80 outlets in Australia and New Zealand. As her fashion business took off, Acton also began to develop her own r