Fashion is spinach
Subtitle: how to beat the fashion racket
By: Elizabeth Hawes ; with a new introduction by Alice Gregory ; artwork by Alexey Brodovich
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9780486797311
Subjects: Fashion; Clothing trade; Women fashion designers; Fashion designers; Fashion design; Clothing and dress; Biography; History
Description: "After working as a stylist in Paris, Elizabeth Hawes launched one of the first American design houses in Depression-era New York. Her witty and astute memoir offers an insider's critique of the fashion scene during the 1920s and '30s. Hawes denounces the industry's predatory practices, advising readers to reject ever-changing fads in favor of comfortable, durable, flattering attire"--
Notes: "An unabridged republication of the work originally published as Fashion Is Spinach, by Random House, New York, in 1938"--Title page verso.