Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues
Salvador Dali Swimwear
A further installment in the Boese-Di Filippo Weird Swimsuit Wars.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jun 26, 2013 -
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Category: Art, Surrealism, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Fashion, 1960s
Miss Treasury Department
Shown is Helen G. Sweeney who won the title of Miss Washington D.C. back in 1924. But she also served, more specifically, as Miss Treasury Department.
Apparently young women were chosen to represent all the various offices of the federal government. So in addition to Miss Treasury Department there was:
- Miss Bureau of Standards (Betty Grace Tucker)
- Miss Veterans Bureau (Elsie L. Schulze)
- Miss Commerce (Estelle Meisenheimer)
- Miss Navy (Etelka Kearney)
- Miss State Department (Adeline Shuler)
- Miss Post Office (Ellen S. Waller)
- Miss Department of Justice (Helen T. Gallagher)
- Miss Civil Service (Irma Beaver)
- Miss Labor (Margaret McKinley)
- Miss Bureau of Engraving (Elizabeth Thompson)
- Miss War Department (Pearl B. Henry)
- Miss Government Printing Office (Evelen M. Smith)
- Miss Agriculture (Jewell Sager)
- Miss Interior (Minnie Jean)
- Miss Federation (Margaret M. Mattare)
- Miss Interstate Commerce (Sarah M. Boyle)
- Miss U.S. Employee's Compensation Commission (Edith S. Webb)
Posted By: Alex - Sat Jun 22, 2013 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Government, 1920s
Miss Typical
I guess it's some kind of achievement to be judged the most entirely average, but still, I don't think "Miss Typical" pageants are often held nowadays. They seem to belong to an age when conformity was thought to be more of a virtue. Rachel Reber here won "Miss Typical Freshman Coed" title back in 1941.
Marilyn Charleston was judged Miss Typical Teen of Nevada:
Reno Gazette Journal - Sep 3, 1948
Posted By: Alex - Tue Jun 18, 2013 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, 1940s
Trevor Winkfield
I rather like the weird paintings of Trevor Winkfield. Do you?
Posted By: Paul - Sun May 19, 2013 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Eccentrics
Kara Dunne: Living Paper Doll
The artist's homepage.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Apr 23, 2013 -
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Category: Art, Performance Art, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Toys
Lena the Hyena: (Anti-) Beauty Contest Winner
Most fans of comics, or Mad magazine, or pop culture in general know about Basil Wolverton and his famous creation, Lena the Hyena. (I put one of Wolverton's great recent books in the sidebar a little while ago.)
But did you know that Lena was the result of a contest sponsored by Al Capp for his Li'l Abner newspaper strip? She took the prize from several other contenders for ugliness.
See who she beat out here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Mar 18, 2013 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Comics, 1940s
The Fire Treatment
Would you set yourself on fire for beauty? According to The Inquisitr, the Fire Treatment (aka Huǒ liáo) is the hot new thing in China:
Posted By: Alex - Fri Mar 08, 2013 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Baths, Showers and Other Cleansing Methods
Leggy Dolls
Somehow, Barbie doesn't seem so anatomically impossible anymore.
More info here.
More pics here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 25, 2013 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Body Modifications, Freaks, Oddities, Quirks of Nature, Toys, 1970s
Life Imitates THE FLY
Full article here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 18, 2013 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Health, Insects and Spiders, Science, 1950s
Fluxion
Let me know at which point you bail from this piece. But if you love it instead, be prepared to pay a high price for each CD--for some unfathomable reason.
More about the musician.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jan 12, 2013 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Music, Avant Garde, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
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