Elizabeth Hawes





Elizabeth Hawes

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

died
September 06, 1971

gender
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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.


Average rating: 3.75 · 73 ratings · 23 reviews · 12 distinct works
Camus, a Romance
3.49 of 5 stars 3.49 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions
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Fashion is Spinach
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1938 — 4 editions
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Foley's Luck: Stories
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1992
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It's Still Spinach
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Why is a Dress?
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But Say It Politely
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Why Women Cry; Or, Wenches ...
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Anything But Love : A Compl...
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The Harp of Accushnet; Poems
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New York, New York
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More books by Elizabeth Hawes…
“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

“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?

“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

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