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Elizabeth Hawes


Born
in Ridgewood, New Jersey, The United States
December 13, 1903

Died
September 06, 1971

Genre
Nonfiction, Fashion


Elizabeth Hawes was an American clothing designer, outspoken critic of the fashion industry, and champion of ready to wear and people's right to have the clothes they desired, rather than the clothes dictated to be fashionable. In addition to her work in the fashion industry as a sketcher, copyist, stylist, and journalist, as well as a designer, she was also an author, union organizer, champion of gender equality, and political activist. She was married twice, first to Ralph Jester in 1930 (divorced 1934) and secondly to the film director Joseph Losey in 1937 (divorced 1944), the father of her son Gavrik Losey. Along with Losey, she was blacklisted in the 1940s. ...more

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Average rating: 4.0 · 399 ratings · 62 reviews · 16 distinct works • Similar authors
Fashion is Spinach
4.17 avg rating — 204 ratings — published 1938 — 46 editions
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Camus, a Romance
3.77 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 2009 — 10 editions
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New York, New York: How the...
4.03 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1993 — 5 editions
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Why Women Cry or Wenches Wi...
3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2008 — 23 editions
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It's Still Spinach
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But Say It Politely
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Why is a Dress?
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Anything But Love : A Compl...
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Men can take it
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Hurry Up, Please, It's Time
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“Women want to wear what they do because of what goes on in their heads. Their size and shape have practically nothing to do with it.”
― Elizabeth Hawes
tags: fashion, why-is-a-dress
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“It is impossible to be completely abstract about clothes because they have no life unless they are worn. They must fit onto a body or they do not exist.”
― Elizabeth Hawes, Why is a Dress?
tags: fashion
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“No garment which distorts the shape and motion of the wearer is beautiful, nor s any garment beautiful which emphasizes more than one or at most two of your sexual characteristics.”
― Elizabeth Hawes, It's Still Spinach
tags: fashion
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