Why women cry
Subtitle: or, Wenches with wrenches
By: by Elizabeth Hawes.
Publisher: Reynal & Hitchcock
Published: 1943
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
Subjects: Women -- Employment; Women -- Social and moral questions
Description: 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.