Elizabeth Hawes Quotes

• Women want to wear what they do because of what goes on in their heads. Their size and shape have practically nothing to do with it.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Goes On, Shapes, Want

  Elizabeth Hawes (1942). “Why is a Dress?: Who? What? When? Where?”

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• I don't know when the word fashion came into being, but it was an evil day. For thousands of years people got along with something called style and maybe, in another thousand, we'll go back to it.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Fashion, Years, People

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• La moda es ese horrible hombrecillo con mal de ojo que te dice que tu abrigo del invierno pasado puede estar en perfectas condiciones físicas, pero que no te lo puedes poner. No puedes ponértelo porque tiene cinturón y este año 'no se llevan los cinturones'.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Fashion, Eye, Winter

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• Es imposible ser completamente abstracto sobre la ropa porque no tiene vida a menos que se lleve puesta. Deben encajar en un cuerpo o no existen.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Clothes, Body, Impossible

  Elizabeth Hawes (1942). “Why is a Dress?: Who? What? When? Where?”

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• No garment which distorts the shape and motion of the wearer is beautiful, nor s any garment beautiful which emphasizes more than one or at most two of your sexual characteristics.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Beautiful, Two, Shapes

  Elizabeth Hawes (1954). “It's Still Spinach”

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• It was my idea that if you started any kind of business, you should begin somewhere near where you hoped to end. In other words, if I wanted to make really good clothes to order, I would start out making good, and therefore expensive, clothes to order. If I started making inexpensive clothes, I thought probably I'd die making them.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Fashion, Order, Ideas

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• There is no word in English for chic. Why should there be? Everything chic is by legend French. Perhaps everything chic is in reality French.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Fashion, Reality, Style

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• Una de las cosas más fascinantes del mundo de la moda es que prácticamente nadie sabe quién lo habita ni por qué existe. Hay algunas personas que saben cómo funciona, pero no lo dicen.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Moda, Gente, Mundo

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• All changes in clothes rise out of the lives of the people who wear them. The function of the designer is simply to see a little ahead of time what the people want, and to provide it. No designer can start anything really new and different unless there is a public all ready for it.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Moda, Ropa, Gente

  Elizabeth Hawes (1939). “Men can take it”

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• Chic is a combination of style and fashion.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Fashion, Style, Chic

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• There is a sound reason why one and a half billion dollars are spent for cosmetics in your country every year, and only half that sum for education: There are no naturally pretty girls in the United States.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Beauty, Girl, Country

  Elizabeth Hawes (1948). “Anything But Love: A Complete Digest of the Rules of Feminine Behavior from Birth to Death ...”

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• rule number one for all American women: You are to be seen and felt, but not heard. Listen and do as you are told and everything will be all right.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Numbers, Heard, American Woman

  Elizabeth Hawes (1948). “Anything But Love: A Complete Digest of the Rules of Feminine Behavior from Birth to Death ...”

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• Style doesn't change every month or every year. It only changes as often as there is a real change in the point of view and lives of the people for whom it is produced.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Fashion, Real, Views

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• Is woman a lost sex? If so, is she the only lost sex? Has woman alone conceived all the vipers in our land?

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Sex, Land, Vipers

  Elizabeth Hawes (1948). “Anything But Love: A Complete Digest of the Rules of Feminine Behavior from Birth to Death ...”

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• After marriage, all things change. And one of them better be you.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Things Change, All Things, Be You

  Elizabeth Hawes (1948). “Anything But Love: A Complete Digest of the Rules of Feminine Behavior from Birth to Death ...”

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• being chic not only takes a great deal of money but an enormous amount of time. It practically precludes everything else, even being on charity committees. Half of one's time goes getting chic, the other half being seen that way.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Fashion, Style, Half

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• If you feel like getting a divorce, you are no exception to the general rule.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Divorce, Feels, Exception

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• The French legend is a very simple one. All really beautiful clothes are designed in the houses of the French couturiers and all women want those clothes.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Beautiful, Fashion, Simple

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• Yesterday people were permitted to change things. They will be permitted to advocate changing them tomorrow. It is only dangerous to think of changing anything today.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Change, Thinking, Yesterday

  Elizabeth Hawes (1939). “Men can take it”

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• The process of education is not generally a process of teaching people to think and ask questions. It ... is mostly one of teaching the young what is and getting them into a mood where they will go on keeping it that way.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Change, Teaching, Thinking

  Elizabeth Hawes (1939). “Men can take it”

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• If one is willing to have children, rhythm is probably the best method of contraception.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Children, Birth Control, Method

  Elizabeth Hawes (1948). “Anything But Love: A Complete Digest of the Rules of Feminine Behavior from Birth to Death ...”

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• All one really requires for putting anything over is enough energy and resistance to keep on plugging the idea. Someone will eventually fall.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Fall, Ideas, Energy

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• Si eres de las que de verdad anhela ser una Bella del Sur en todo momento, sin importarte ocupar el doble del espacio disponible en autobús, metro o cualquier otro lugar, será mejor que te traslades a una gran finca repleta de sirvientes.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Space, Southern, Subway

  Elizabeth Hawes (1954). “It's Still Spinach”

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• Estás siendo entrenada para ser Reina, pero no tienes que actuar como tal hasta que tengas tu propia colmena. Ser Reina no te exigirá demasiado, ya que nunca se te pedirá que uses tu mente en ningún asunto importante. Usarás la Mente Nacional, su mente. Es muy relajante.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Queens, Mind, Use

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