Fashion Is Spinach: How to Beat the Fashion Racket Paperback - 2015
by Elizabeth Hawes; Introduction by Alice Gregory
From the rear cover
After working as a stylist in Paris, Elizabeth Hawes (1903-71) launched one of the first American design houses in Depression-era New York. Hawes was an outspoken critic of the fashion industry and a champion of ready-to-wear styles. 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. Style, she maintains, reflects an era's mood, altering only with changes in attitude and taste. Fashion, conversely, exists only to perpetuate sales. 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, culture, and ethics.
Dover (2015) republication of the edition published by Random House, New York, 1938.
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- Title Fashion Is Spinach: How to Beat the Fashion Racket
- Author Elizabeth Hawes; Introduction by Alice Gregory
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dover Publications
- Date 2015-03
- ISBN 9780486797311 / 0486797317
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 1.52 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Fashion - United States - History - 20th, Women fashion designers - New York (State) -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014043485
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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