Boy have there been some strange beauty contests over the years! These photos include the contestants for ‘Miss Psywar’ (doesn’t that stand for Phsychological Warfare…?), ‘Miss War Worker’ and ‘Miss Bobbed Hair 1925’…
Above: Contestants for the U.S. Navy ‘Miss 50 Years of Naval Aviation’ pose in front of a North American A3J-1 Vigilante at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida (USA), in 1961.
Miss War Worker Beauty Contest 1942, Canadian National Exhibition Grandstand : contestants are grouped by employer. Toronto, Canada.
Four contestants of the Halloween Slick Chick beauty contest in Anaheim, Calif., 1947
Winner and contestants in the bobbed-hair contest: Coral Gables, Florida 1925
Contestants in Miss Psywar contest c. 1930
Bathing beauty contest at Schafer Brothers Logging Company annual picnic, Schafer State Park, August 14, 1927
The 1952 Miss Shrewsbury Competition
Photograph of Miss Archives Contest in the Auditorium, 1966
Sun Girl Quest place getters posing at Suttons Beach, 1953
Nine girls in a Fox Films and Daily Telegraph Shirley Temple look-alike contest 1934
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The Shirleys have to be my favourite here. Think the lassie at the back was pushing her luck a bit. helene@revivalvintage
Yes, I think you’re right there. Apart from the two on the front left, I think only their mothers could have thought they looked like Shirley Temple… 🙂
I love the hairstyles and dress outfits in these photos.