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A photograph of a large group of women all wearing differently coloured dresses and standing on a stage in front of a black background
A typical beauty pageant

A beauty pageant is a competition that mainly focuses on the physical beauty of its contestants, although such contests also incorporate personality, intelligence, talent, and answers to judges' questions as judged criteria. The phrase almost invariably refers only to contests for women and girls; similar events for men or boys are called by other names and are more likely to be bodybuilding contests.

Winners of beauty contests are often called beauty queens. Children's beauty pageants mainly focus on beauty, gowns, sportswear modelling, talent, and personal interviews. Adult and teen pageants focus on makeup, hair and gowns, swimsuit modelling, and personal interviews. Possible awards include titles, tiaras or crowns, sashes, savings bonds, and cash prizes.

History

National contests

Eplanet Pvt. ltd. are quite contented to announce new edition of our regular event “Mrs. Nepal”. After majestic accomplishment in national, international and regional events since last eleven years, we are on the verge of organizing this talent hunt as well as beauty pageant as a grand event for the married Nepali women who are between the age of 21 to 56 and living all over the world.“Mrs Nepal” will be the great amalgamation of Nepali art and culture along with the platform for all the married Nepali women to express themselves however they are and polish themselves in required level of perfection. It is also a kind of demonstration against women domination observed in the society. This beauty pageant will act as the track to locate the direction towards the desired career wherever they feel secure and perfect to survive with full satisfaction. The event will give opportunity to the participant to stand up with her talent in international platform and represent Nepal and our Art & culture which promotes Tourism in Nepal. The International event will give each contestant the opportunity to learn about culture and tradition of other countries, along with the chance to share her beliefs and make new friends during the entire week of activities leading up to two exciting evenings of competition. The event Mrs. Nepal is a talent hunt as well as beauty pageant which not only looks after the surface beauty but also seeks for the core intelligence and highly intellectual personality who could lead the society. Women are regarded as the carrier of half sky but side by side considered as the weakest part of the human civilization. The principal intention of this event is to groom the women and encourage them to participate in various activities in order to build their confidence and prepare them to win the most prestigious title “Mrs. Nepal” and head as a role model of the women existence. The Winner of Mrs. Nepal will be goodwill ambassador for SEVEN NEPAL, an NGO which works for children health and education sector and also for the needy children. Winner will also be involved in various charity events and other social work throughout the year and forever.

International contests

Main article: International Pageant of Pulchritude

In May 1920 promoter C.E. Barfield of Galveston organized a new event known as "Splash Day" on the island. The event featured a "Bathing Girl Revue" competition as the centerpiece of its attractions.[1][2][3][4]

Seawall Boulevard and the Hotel Galvez in the 1940s
Postcard view of Galveston where the International Pageant of Pulchritude was held in 1921.

The event was the kick-off of the summer tourist season in the city and was carried forward annually. The event quickly became known outside of Texas and, beginning in 1926, the world's first international contest was added, known as the "International Pageant of Pulchritude."[3] This contest is said to have served as a model for modern pageants.[4][5][6] It featured contestants from England, Russia, Turkey, and many other nations and the title awarded at the time was known as "Miss Universe."[4][7] The event was discontinued in the United States in 1932 because of the Depression (the international competition was revived briefly in Belgium).

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Miss World 1954, Egypt.

The first extant international competition to be established was the Miss World pageant, created in the United Kingdom by Eric Morley in 1951,[8][9] and is still one of the most publicised beauty contests in the world.[10][11][12]

The competition started as the Festival Bikini Contest, in honour of the recently introduced swimwear of the time, but was called "Miss World" by the media. It was originally planned as a one-off event. Upon learning about the upcoming Miss Universe pageant, Morley decided to make the pageant an annual event.[13][14] Opposition to the wearing of bikinis led to their replacement with more modest swimwear after the first contest.[15]

In 1959, the BBC started broadcasting the competition. The pageant's popularity grew with the advent of television.[16]

The other Big Four international beauty pageants are Miss Universe (begun in 1952), Miss International (1960) and Miss Earth (2001). They are the most coveted beauty titles when it comes to international pageant competitions and are considered to be as such since they are the four largest and most famous female beauty pageants across the globe. Because of their prominence which already became an institution in beauty pageant industry, many fans always anticipate these beauty pageants each year.[17]

Purpose

Lone Star State Selects Beauties for 100 Year Pageant[18]

European festivals dating to the medieval era provide the most direct lineage for beauty pageants. For example, English May Day celebrations always involved the selection of queens. In the United States, the May Day tradition of selecting women to serve as symbols of bounty and community ideals continued, as young beautiful women participated in public celebrations.[19]

Some pageants award college scholarships, to the winner or multiple runners-up.[20]

Selection of "beauty queen"

Beauty pageants are generally multi-tiered, with local competitions feeding into the larger competitions.[21] International pageants involve hundreds, sometimes thousands, of local competitions.

Beauty pageants today

Further information: List of beauty contests

Major international contests for women include the yearly Miss World competition, Miss Universe, Miss International and Miss Earth.[22][23][24] These are considered the "Big Four" pageants, the four largest and most famous international beauty contests.[25][26]

2002 was a year remarkable for its number of winners from countries with a majority Muslim population. In that year Miss Lebanon, Christina Sawaya won the Miss International pageant, Miss Turkey, Azra Akın won Miss World, and the original winner of Miss Earth for that year was Džejla Glavović from Bosnia and Herzegovina (before being replaced by Winfred Omwakwe of Kenya). In 2006, the Muslim nation of Pakistan crowned its first Miss Bikini Universe, Mariyah Moten, which later became a controversy worldwide.

Criticism

Critics of beauty contests argue that such contests reinforce the idea that girls and women should be valued primarily for their physical appearance, and that this puts tremendous pressure on women to conform to conventional beauty standards by spending time and money on fashion, cosmetics, hair styling and even cosmetic surgery. They claim that this pursuit of physical beauty even encourages some women to diet to the point of harming themselves.[27][28][29]

It is argued that rather than being empowering, beauty pageants are in fact disempowering because they deny the full humanity of women and they reinforce the idea that women's purpose is to look attractive or 'be hot'.[30] http://eplanetnepal.com/ We, Eplanet have established ourselves in the field of event management and event organization along with the fortification and promotion of our culture, religion, art, language, dresses and lifestyle as well as community and country as a whole.

Across eleven years of our operation, we, Eplanet have been recognized as one of the leading companies in the field of event management. We have been admired for our dedication and professionalism in each venture of us and of every sector social, glamour, fashion, ceremonies, celebrations, seminars, entertainment and cultural series. Our dedications towards the job and the hype we provide to our program & all other related entities uphold the quality of our work and generate a masterpiece.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Stein, Elissa (2006). Beauty Queen: Here She Comes... Chronicle Books. p. 37. ISBN 978-0-8118-4864-0.
    "Revues and other Vanities: The Commodification of Fantasy in the 1920s". Assumption College. Retrieved 2 October 2009.
  2. ^ "The Sloane Collection, no. 4 - Galveston Bathing Girl Revue, 1925". Story Sloane, III Collection. Texas Archive of the Moving Image. 1925. Retrieved 21 July 2011.
  3. ^ a b "Miss United States Began In Galveston". The Islander Magazine. 2006.
  4. ^ a b c Cherry, Bill (25 October 2004). "Miss America was once Pageant of Pulchritude". Galveston Daily News.
  5. ^ Brown, Bridget (17 May 2009). "Isle bathing beauty tradition reborn". Galveston Daily News.
  6. ^ Savage, Candace (1998). Beauty queens: a playful history. Abbeville. p. 33. ISBN 978-1-55054-618-7.
  7. ^ "The Billboard". 25 September 1948: 49. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  8. ^ "Tianjin Miss World China Pageant comes to a close". China Daily. 28 August 2009. Retrieved 24 May 2011.
  9. ^ "Miss Universe on August 23". Timesofmalta.com. Retrieved 24 May 2011.
  10. ^ "Brazil's Miss World finalist has her hands and feet amputated". English.pravda.ru. 22 January 2009. Retrieved 24 May 2011.
  11. ^ Singapore must not give up its 59 seconds of fame[dead link]
  12. ^ "Tracing the regal existence of 'Miss Universe'". Spicezee.com. 7 October 2008. Retrieved 24 May 2011.
  13. ^ "Frontline World: A Pageant is Born". Pbs.org. Retrieved 24 May 2011.
  14. ^ "Bet on Miss World Pageant". Covers.com. Retrieved 24 May 2011.
  15. ^ "Bikini ban at Miss World pageant". Retrieved 8 June 2013.
  16. ^ "Miss World gets a makeover". news.bbc.co.uk. BBC News. 9 September 1998. Retrieved 9 October 2013.
  17. ^ Prestigious Beauty Pageant (18 November 2013). "Four Big Ships Dominate International Beauty Pageants". Prestigious Beauty Pageants. Retrieved 15 June 2014.
  18. ^ Universal Newsreel (1935). "Lone Star State Selects Beauties for 100 Year Pageant". Texas Archive of the Moving Image. Retrieved 21 July 2011.
  19. ^ "Miss America: People & Events: Origins of the Beauty Pageant". Pbs.org. Retrieved May 2014. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  20. ^ Miss Teenage California scholarship awards, from the pageant website
  21. ^ Cherie Wimberly (26 March 2009), The Ultimate Beauty Pageant Notebook, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, ISBN 978-1-4421-1641-2, retrieved 14 April 2013
  22. ^ News, EFE (28 November 2009). "Mexicana Anagabriela Espinoza gana concurso de belleza en China". Terra Networks (Mexico)/EFE. Retrieved 19 February 2012. {{cite news}}: |last= has generic name (help); Check |first= value (help)
  23. ^ Sibbett, Rebecca (15 February 2008). "Edinburgh students launch beauty pageant". The Edinburgh Journal. Retrieved 8 March 2012.
  24. ^ Fischer, Bernd (20 August 2012). "Beauty pageants: the bad and the beautiful". Perdeby. Retrieved 26 December 2012.
  25. ^ "Beauty with scandals". The Standard. 21 July 2011. Retrieved 21 July 2011.
  26. ^ "24-year-old former Tian Zhizi elected as "Miss Japan 2011"". Business Times. 4 July 2011. Retrieved 21 July 2011.
  27. ^ "Beauty and body image in the media". Media Awareness Network. Archived from the original on 18 January 2009. Retrieved 17 January 2009. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  28. ^ "Reigning Miss Universe Suspected of Having Cosmetic Surgery". Archived from the original on 26 August 2010. Retrieved 23 August 2010. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  29. ^ "Plastic Surgery: Bollywood, Miss Universe, and the Indian Girl Next Door" (PDF). Gujarati Magazine (Sandesh). Retrieved 23 August 2010.
  30. ^ "Why OBJECT to Beauty Pageants?". object.org.uk. Retrieved May 2014. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
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References

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