Fashion is Spinach - Hawes Elizabeth
Fashion is Spinach - Hawes Elizabeth After working as a stylist in Paris, Elizabeth Hawes (1903-71) launched one of the first American design houses in Depression-era New York. Fashion Is Spinach,…
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Fashion is Spinach - Hawes Elizabeth
After working as a stylist in Paris, Elizabeth Hawes (1903-71) launched one of the first American design houses in Depression-era New York. Fashion Is Spinach, her witty and astute memoir, offers an insider's critique of the fashion scene during the 1920s and '30s.I don't know when the word fashion came into being, but it was an evil day, Hawes declares. Hawes was an outspoken critic of the fashion industry and a champion of ready-to-wear styles.
Fashion, conversely, exists only to perpetuate sales. Style, she maintains, reflects an era's mood, altering only with changes in attitude and taste. Hawes denounces the industry's predatory practices, advising readers to reject ever-changing fads in favor of comfortable, durable, flattering attire.
Decades ahead of her time, she offers a fascinating and tartly observed behind-the-scenes look at the fashion industry's economics,
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