Non-standard beauty contests and their participants, causing a double impression (16 photos)
The standards and standards of beauty are changing quite often now. AT This collection presents an entertaining portion of pictures from various competitions in which young girls tried to show themselves in all beauty. What type of girls do you like more? 
1. 1991 Windjammer Budweiser Bikini Bash Winner 
2. Istanbul leg beauty contest, 1971 
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4. Beauty contest in the figure category, USA, 1946 
5. The winner of the beauty pageant "Miss Wisconsin" Jean Houston. Milwaukee, 1952 
6. Cleo de Merode - the woman who led the first ever ranking of beauties 
French dancer, born at the end of the 19th century, who became one of the the most famous women in the world due to their beauty. Got a title "The Queen of Beauty" of the French magazine "Illustration", which compiled the world's first ranking of world beauties in 1896.
7. Masha Kalinina - winner of the first beauty contest in the USSR in 1988 
8. The winner of the beauty contest "First Lady of the KGB" - Ekaterina Mayorova. THE USSR. Moscow. November 1, 1990 
9. At a beauty contest in the USSR, 1988 
10. The winner of the beauty pageant "Miss Atomic Bomb", Nevada, 1955 
11. Betty Brosmer - the first beauty of the 1950s, cover star and prototype of pin-up girls. Won more than 50 contests beauty. It was her proportions that were considered standard 
12. National beauty contest "Miss Black America". This competition is held as a protest against racial discrimination, Atlantic City 1968 
13. Prize-winner of the I All-Union beauty contest Miss USSR - Ekaterina Meshcheryakova, 1989 
14. Beauty contest in swimsuits, USA, 1935 
15. Ankle Beauty Contest, 1930 
Such "beauty pageants" were held in London before the war. The faces of the participants were hidden, and the judge (of course, a man) chose the winner exclusively on the ankles.
