Конкурсы красоты начала прошлого века. Интересно посмотреть, как изменились (или не изменились?) представления о красоте. Да и по штатам представления о красивой девушке тоже различаются: если ориентироваться на надписи на лентах.

Pageants of beauty of the beginning of the last century. It is interesting to look, how have changed (or have not changed?) representations about beauty. And on states of representation about the beautiful girl too differ: if to be guided by inscriptions on tapes.

Bathing Girl Parade, Seal Beach, Cal. 1917


Annual Bathing Girl Parade, Balboa Beach, Cal., June 20, 1920



Balboa Bathing Parade, 1925



Bathing Girl Parade, Crystal Pier, Calif. 1925



Venice Bathing Girl Parade, 1925



Venice Bathing Beauty Pageant, 1926



Inter-city beauties, Atlantic City Pageant, 1927



Long Beach, California, Bathing Beauty Parade, 1927



Second International Pageant of Pulchritude and Eighth Annual Bathing Girl Revue, May 21, 22, 23, 1927, Galveston, Texas



Third International Pageant of Pulchritude and Ninth Annual Bathing Girl Revue, June 3, 4, 5, 1928, Galveston, Texas