Fashion Is Spinach
Autobiography
By: Elizabeth Hawes
Date: 1938
Source: Hawes, Elizabeth. Fashion Is Spinach. New York: Random House, 1938, 3–6, 19.
About the Author: Elizabeth Hawes (1903–1971), born in New Jersey, studied anatomy and economics at Vassar College before apprenticing with fashion designers Bergdorf Goodman in New York and Nicole Groult in Paris. In 1931 Hawes staged the first American fashion show in Paris, and as the depression weakened American reliance upon expensive Parisian designs, she became increasingly successful, not only as a designer but also as an author and social activist. She died in 1971 in New York.
Introduction
The economic hardships of the worldwide depression of the 1930s eventually undercut Paris's longtime domination of the fashion industry, buoying the efforts of American designers such as Elizabeth Hawes, Charles James,...
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