Aline Davis Hays

Aline Davis Hays (April 12, 1887 – June 3, 1944), born Aline Julia Davis, was an American clothing designer, textile manufacturer, and arts promoter, president of the League of Women Shoppers, a pro-labor consumers' rights organization.

[4][5] She became a department store stylist in the late 1920s, and finding the available fabrics lacking, she began designing fashionable cotton prints for Ameritex-Sudanette.

[2][6][7] In 1933, she explained her belief that "Every woman who has any creative talent should foster and develop it, no matter what difficulty or opposition she may encounter.

"[2] In 1938, Hays was elected first president of the League of Women Shoppers, a consumer rights' organization she co-founded in 1935.

B. Matthews commented "Aline Davis Hays has supported a good many Communist-front organizations"[10] based on her leadership of the League of Women Shoppers,[11] her activities in peace and labor causes and the women's poll tax repeal movement, and her support for friends with Communist affiliation.