Elizabeth Hawes was born Ridgewood, New Jersey, on 16 December, 1903.
Hawes studied at Vassar College and then Parson's School of Design in New York.
From 1925 to 1928, Elizabeth worked in Paris as a fashion copyist, stylist and designer.
Hawes returned to New York in 1928, and opened a business in partnership with Rosemary Harden.
When Harden left in 1930, Elizabeth founded, Hawes, Inc.
In 1935, Hawes gave a fashion show in the Soviet Union.
In 1942, Hawes designed the uniform of the Red Cross Volunteers.
Hawes wrote and published a number of books including: Fashion is Spinach, Men Can Take It, Men Can Have it and Anything but Love.
Elizabeth Hawes passed away September 1971, in New York.
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