Time for a little Robert Stacy McCain (and SMITTYYYYYYY) “Rule 5” action.
Were women just uglier back near the turn of the century? Or did the really beautiful women just not enter the contests? Maybe they were too busy hoeing out in “the back 40″? Or maybe since many married at age 14 all the beautiful women were already married before they were old enough to enter the beauty contests?
"1st Miss World 1920s" (or so the photo caption says)
1921 Miss America (the first year of that contest) Margaret Gorman
- 1930
I'm sure that my grandfather would have found her very attractive...
Bess, 1945 (apparently the times they are a changin')
Ms. Sweden 1950 (she was only 1 of 6 runners up in the Miss Universe contest--I'd need to see the other 5 to decide for myself
1950 Miss America--how did Miss Canada slip in there?
1961
Miss Universe (Sweden) 1966
Miss Universe, 1976 (Isreal)
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Miss U 1976 (with new make up?)
Miss World, 1977
Unfortunately, Vanessa Williams was forced to resign when nude photos of her surfaced in Penthouse. I know, I KNOW, some of you want to see some of them. [NOT SAFE FOR WORK. See e.g., here, and here, here and here oh oh and here and here. What sacrifices I make for my readers!] She wasn’t the first, or the last, “bad girl” to win a tournament, it appears…
Stephania Fernandez, Miss Universe 2009 (1st time same country won back to back!)
Dayana Mendoza, Miss Universe 2008
Miss Universe 2009
- From Venezuela (hope she’s not a socialist)
5 responses so far ↓
CGHill // November 5, 2009 at 10:05 pm |
I dunno. I like the looks of some of the, um, earlier contestants, but then I’m old.
Maybe it’s just that we prefer to see what we prefer to boink.
John Doe // November 7, 2009 at 4:29 pm |
I think I’ll leave that last comment alone. My wife reads this blog occasionally…
CGHill // November 8, 2009 at 2:33 am |
Indeed. I’d probably never get to spew the way I do had I a Significant Other looking over my shoulder.
John Doe // November 8, 2009 at 4:49 am |
Yeah, well yer welcome here any time, buddy. We won’t tell your significant.
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