"Anything But Love" 1942 HAWES, Elizabeth
$250
HAWES, Elizabeth
[277] pp.
Rinehart & Company, Inc.
1948
8 1/4" x 5 3/4"
Jacket design by Ellison and Frank Liebermann
An intriguing study of gender politics and roles in the late 1940s. 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.