Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues
Crazy Pygmy—Hilarious Dancing
What day is not brightened by the inexplicable and thoughtlessly ridiculed antics of a small person?
Posted By: Paul - Fri Nov 01, 2013 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Ethnic Groupings, Human Marvels, 1930s, Dance
“I Can’t Take a Boy with THAT Many Pimples!”
My question: if this happened to Jack in 2013, could he launch a successful discrimination lawsuit?
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 08, 2013 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Body, Work and Vocational Training, Advertising, 1930s
“That Mystery Half-Wit Sure Has the Girls All Agog!”
[Click to enlarge.]
Original ad.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 12, 2013 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Costumes and Masks, Stereotypes and Cliches, Comics, 1950s, Face and Facial Expressions, Fictional Monsters
LP Cover Lover
An outstanding collection of weird album covers can be found at LP COVER LOVER.
They have put the risque ones on their Tumblr site.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 16, 2013 -
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Category: Art, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Music, Sexuality, Collectors
Cattle Princesses
I never did understand why cows and beauty contests are often linked. It's probably a throwback to ancient pagan fertility rites. Below are the six young women who hoped to become the 1975 Kern County Cattle Princess. I don't know who won.And below that are the young women who currently serve as California Dairy Princesses.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Aug 08, 2013 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Farming
Kou Kou
こうこう | koukou from takashi ohashi on Vimeo.
Here is something akin to fireworks for the 4th.
"KOU KOU is a visual work based on an abstract animation synchronized with a song comprising the unique syllabic sounds of the Japanese language, without actually using any full words."
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jul 04, 2013 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Languages, Video, Avant Garde, Asia
Sculptures of Bernard Jepson
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 29, 2013 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Eccentrics, Horticulture and Gardens, Outsider Art
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
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