Beauty - Pageant .us
Congratulations, you're the next contestant on beauty-pageant.us where everyone with a dream of going home with that coveted sash and tiara can find the resources and information they need to help give them a better shot when being chosen for that number one spot. Show bizzness, early call times, and parties await you. Ever since I was a little girl, I've always dreamed about being Miss America. Isn't that what ALL little girls dream about?
Unfortunately my parents didn't have much faith in my dream, and quickly gave hundreds of reasons why "I couldn't become a beauty queen".Beauty Pageants evolved from early-twentieth-century bathing-beauty contests, where women participated in swimsuit competitions in beach resort cities. The Miss America pageant, which became the standard for American beauty contests, began in 1921 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, as a promotional gimmick by the hotelier H. Conrad Eckholm. Early beauty pageants, and the un-married, made-up, and swimsuit-wearing women who competed in them, were often viewed as morally suspect and criticized by women's church groups and conservative politicians. Pageants became more respectable and legitimate in the 1940s, when women's roles were changing, largely as a result of their work experiences during both world wars, and when pageant winners sold war bonds and won college scholarships.