Dress Culture: Why Swimsuits Become Synonyms For Beauty Pageant

　　 Swimwear Become a synonym for beauty pageant

From the very beginning, beauty contest had nothing to do with the character of the contestants. In 1880, the first swimsuit beauty pageant was held in a small town in Perth beach, Delaware, USA. It is said that as an annual celebration, it greatly promoted the development of local commerce. Edison was once one of the judges, and the prize for the unmarried girl who won the championship was a full set of dowry.

 

Although it is swimmers beauty pageant, but from mid nineteenth Century to early twentieth Century, women's swimming clothing Still covers most parts of the body. At that time, women's knickers and waist tunic were popular. The fabric was heavy flannel or wool. Australian swimmer and film star Annette Kellerman was arrested in Boston in 1907 because she wore a tight fitting swimsuit on the beach. However, she has made swimsuits popular, and swimsuit beauty pageant has also stepped out of the United States and spread all over the world.

In 1921, the first "Miss America" beauty contest was held in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The host wore the characters of Greek mythology. Margaret, a 16 year old girl from Washington, D.C., won the title. The trophy was a metal Mermaid. The beauty value of the beauty contest was still lower than commercial value. The purpose of the Miss America beauty contest is to increase the income of Atlantic City's tourism industry. It was reported that there were 1000 swimsuit girls in the beauty contest, and 150 thousand of the audience witnessed the autumn beauty contest in Atlantic City. The guests from more than 100 cities participated in the closing ceremony.

In the 1925 Long Island beauty pageant, the swimmers lined up in the swimming pool, and then walked to a similar platform. A photo taken in the Smithson society actually records this moment. The photo on the back reads, "you will never find me in the audience. I am the only judge in the Long Island beauty contest. The referee, Alberto Vargas, is an illustrator who specializes in drawing a big breast girl for Playboy magazine.

Since then, swimsuit display has become an integral part of the beauty contest, or is the most important part. Even after the talent show was added later, the contestants began to answer some tricky questions, but they could not change the essence of the beauty contest. There is also an interesting interlude in the standard of perfect female figure: the Texas beauty contest in 1935 has strict rules. The swimmers wear a swimsuit and drill through a group of hollowed wooden boards made according to the "standard beauty body".

Swimsuit beauty came to China in 1946. Although French Luis Lierde launched bikini in July 18, 1946, the world's smallest swimsuit covered with the smallest body size, Chinese beauty pageant in 1946 was still conservative in Paris. one piece 。 But even so, it is enough to cause public opinion to be in an uproar.

 

 

In that year, the northern Jiangsu Plain was torn by rainstorms. The canal dike and flood hit 300 square kilometers. A large number of refugees fled to Shanghai. All the celebrities in Shanghai set up the refugee relief association, and decided to organize the miss Shanghai pageant in order to raise funds. All the proceeds were used to relieve the victims. It was Du Yuesheng who was the executive chairman of the disaster relief committee in Northern Jiangsu.

As early as the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, Shanghai had made beauty pageant. At that time, it was called "flower flower list" and "flower Queen". Later it was called "President of Hua Guo Da" and so on. But the beauty pageant and boudoir became the main force of the selection of miss Shanghai, which accounted for more than half of the 48 contestants. Finally, the "miss Shanghai" beauty contest is divided into four groups: boudoir celebrity, Ping opera Kun Ling, singer and dance star. Mei Lanfang was invited to be the guest of honor.

At that time, many stars dropped out of the race on the grounds of swimsuit beauty. At the time of the formal competition, there was a miss surnamed Bi on the stage who took off in public. cheongsam Revealing the bathing suit and singing the "coming again," attracted the screaming of the audience. The scene was very confusing. At that time, the newspaper said that Miss BIE was mentally mentally challenged and tried to vent her dissatisfaction in public places. {page_break}

　　 Swimsuits will be cancelled in the future beauty contest

In the history of "Miss America" swimsuit beauty contest, there is also a special independent traveller, that is, miss Fawkes in 1951. After the election, miss Fawkes's first thing was to refuse to sign a series of commercial contracts. She told Katharina swimsuit company that she would not wear a bathing suit to the public in addition to swimming. So Katharina and the Miss America Pageant broke up and began sponsoring the Miss Universe competition.

On the eve of the civil rights movement in the United States, the first African American beauty contest was held in Mississippi in 1960s. American photographer Henry Anderson recorded the "black beauty" in a swimsuit, taking a cat walk and projecting the curve of the body. At that time, many American beauty pageant, including the most famous Miss America pageant, allowed only white people to sign up. It was not until 1970 that there were black people in the Miss America pageant.

The course of beauty pageant in China is also tortuous. In 1980s, some Western things began to germinate in China, including beauty pageant. Most of the pageant was held in the name of the model competition. In 1988, "beauty in Huacheng - Guangzhou area first advertising star model Grand Prix" is one of the early beauty contest. During the semi-finals, the swimmen wore the test of swimsuit and pushed the event to the cusp of public opinion. In the first four days of the semi-finals, the Organizing Committee for the first time formally received a notice from the higher authorities to stop the competition. After repeated consultations, although the contest did not abort, it was banned from reporting.

Today, swimsuits have become standard procedures for Chinese beauty pageant competitions. Swimwear photos of the fifty-second most recent International Miss China competition are being circulated online.

But swimsuit beauty has also been challenged. The 50 year old "miss England" beauty contest announced in 2010 that no swimsuit display links would be installed in the future games, which led to the long-term efforts of the young British soldier, Terra Ho, in 2009. TERENA Hao Zhi, known as "fighting Bobbi", won the "miss England" contest in 2009.

 

As an image spokesperson for underwear companies, Terrena Ho Chi is not shy about wearing cool clothes in front of the photographer, but she thinks the swimwear segment in the beauty contest is not very reasonable. She thought it would be hard enough for girls to walk on the T platform in such a tense environment. If they were to dress up so exposed, it would be a bit too much for the wolves to brush their faces. With the appeal of her and opponents, the organizers of the "miss England" announced that the swimsuit would be removed in the future competition instead of the competition of ecology, sports and wisdom.

Britain was not the first country to cancel swimsuit. As early as 2007, the thirteenth "Russian beauty contest" abolished the swimsuit performance and announced the best overall coordination beauty requirement relative to the model 90-60-90 standard.

But can you choose beauty from SWIMSUIT? For now, swimsuits will be entangled with beauty pageant, and record the changes of people's thoughts, how to treat sexy, beautiful and exposed.