Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues
America’s Most Beautiful Back Contest
I can't be sure if all these videos and photos refer to the same Galveston contest, but it's likely. Except of course for the specifically Florida one.Read about the event--which was briefly revived a decade ago--here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Mar 30, 2023 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Regionalism, Twentieth Century
Miss Paramount Week
This beauty prize is plenty weird on its own. Most beauty queen titles are not delimited by a timeframe. Of course, the winners of the most famous contests generally reign for a year. A week seems a short splurge. But this winner, actress/singer/model Sandy Warner, also notches up another claim to WU fame. She was the cover girl for many of Martin Denny's exotica albums. Read about her at the link.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 10, 2023 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Movies, Music, Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, Television, 1950s, 1960s
Curing insane women by beauty treatments
I doubt this actually cured anyone, but as the article notes, it was certainly an improvement on the old way of treating mental illness.Rouge, powder, lipsticks, eyebrow pencils and all the other implements of artificial beauty are provided, so that the women can make up to their heart's content, regardless of the somewhat weird results sometimes obtained... It is a part of the system to let the "customer" direct her own beautification as much as is possible.
Pittsburgh Sun Telegraph - July 14, 1929
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Posted By: Alex - Tue Feb 14, 2023 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, 1920s, Mental Health and Insanity
Miss Yashica Gold Venus
20 year old Lova Moor, Cabaret performer at the Paris ''Crazy Horse Saloon'' was elected ''Miss Yashica Gold Venus'' under the sponsorship of the well launching on the French market of the new Electro 35 Mecanicor Camera produced by Yashica.
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Feb 12, 2023 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Photography and Photographers, 1960s
Miss Color TV
Apparently the contest continued beyond 1956 (first and second images), because the advertisement that follows is from 1959.
Ann Daly (No. 25) screams as she is declared "Miss Color-TV" in beauty contest at Palisades Amusement Park, N.J.; other contestants stand alongside her.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Feb 08, 2023 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Television, 1950s
Puppidog Water for the face
In her 1690 pamphlet Mundus Muliebris, Mary Evelyn included a recipe for a woman's facial lotion. She called it "Puppidog Water for the Face":The recipe was intended to be satirical, but Fenja Gunn, in her 1973 book The Artificial Face: A History of Cosmetics, notes that it was satire rooted in contemporary realities — notably the persistent rumor that Elizabeth I's pomade was made from puppy dog fat, and the seventeenth-century belief that drinking puppy dog urine was good for the complexion.
Some more info about puppy dogs used as moisturizers can be found on the Early Modern Medicine blog:
Takes Sallet Oil four pound, two Puppy-dogs newly whelped, Earthworms washed in white Wine one pound; boil the Whelps til they fall in pieces then put in the worms a while after strain it, then with three ounces of Cypress Turpentine, and one ounce of Spirits of Wine, perfect the Oil according to Art.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Feb 05, 2023 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Dogs, Seventeenth Century
Youth-Molde
As opposed to moldy youth.
McCall's - July 1936
Posted By: Alex - Fri Feb 03, 2023 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Advertising, 1930s
The Miss Ka Palapala Beauty Contest
Contestants divided into racial categories? Seemed like a good idea at the time. Until a cow almost won.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jan 18, 2023 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, South Pacific, Twentieth Century
Miss Northwest Territories
Article source.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jan 08, 2023 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, 1930s, Native Americans
Mississippi’s Queen of the Forest
I believe the title of this post alone would make the basis of an excellent fantasy franchise. Netflix, Apple+ or Amazon Prime--you know where to find me!
Senator John C. Stennis poses with Miss Katherine Alexander of Booneville, Mississippi and Governor of Miss. J. P. Coleman at the State Queen of the Forest Pageant in 1956. Left to Right: Senator Stennis, Miss Katherine Alexander, and Governor J. P. Coleman.
1959 Press Photo Dixie Shadburn, "Queen of the Forest" for Southeast Mississippi
Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 31, 2022 -
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Category: Agriculture, Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Regionalism, 1950s, 1960s
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