Beauty Pageants Through The Years, Part 1

Beauty Pageants date back to 1921. This year saw the grand introductions of beauty pageants as we know today. The first pageant was held in Atlantic City, called the National Beauty Tournament. though, 1921 additionally saw the extremely first Miss America Pageant. This pageant was nothing like today’s pageant, with representatives from every state. if truth be told, the first Miss America Pageant only had 8 contestants and was won by a 16 year old, Washington, D.C. resident named Margaret Gorman.

In 1922 and 1923, a first and last happened in Miss America history, the same girl, Mary Campbell won the headline twice, in two years. This prompted organizers to develop a rule that told that any champion can only hold one headline and never qualify for the headline again.

The late twenties and early thirties were without Miss America Pageants, owing to the press and the Depression. When it did come back, they included evening gowns in the competitions. Then in later years of the thirties, a talent competition was added as an non-compulsory event for the women in the beauty pageant. In 1938, it then becomes a classification that was needed.

In the world of beauty pageants, it was in a while clear that Miss America was very extended and then the birth of Miss Universe, Miss World, Junior Miss, and Miss USA Beauty Pageants happened in the 50’s. The 50’s additionally saw the first live televised Miss America Beauty Pageant

The sixties were filled with first likewise, in the begin of the decade, Miss USA crowned the first black woman in history, Corrine Huff. The sixties additionally gave birth to small Miss Universe, small Miss America, and Miss Teenage America pageants. What the world didn’t know then, was that in 1962 the newly crowned America’s Junior Miss, Diane Sawyer, would in some unspecified time in the future become one of the most influential journalists in the world.

Throughout the years, beauty pageants resume to be a scene of instant success in every generation, youthful and old, and they seem to be the one aspiration that every small girl dreams of. They all dream of hearing the ever extended “There She Is” song, while she is being crowned one of the new pageant winners.