Word: pageants
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...first Miss Harvard pageant is less than a week away. Although organizers Gretchen R. Passe ’03 and Eric P. Fenstermaker ’04 from the student group Impact emphatically assure us that it will not be a beauty pageant, just what it will be remains unclear...
...surface, Miss Harvard sure looks like a beauty pageant. Its four rounds, introductions, swimwear, talent and interviews, sound awfully familiar. Wait, they say, this will be an “alternative” swimwear competition—the bathing suits, you see, are optional. And the formal gowns that contestants typically wear during beauty pageants—they’re optional, too. According to Impact, the show is really about “talent,” not the appearance of the eight contestants. To this end, they were even so wise as to include the women?...
There’s merit to Impact’s concern about common objections to beauty pageants—that they demean women by putting them on display as physical marvels devoid of personality. Pageant consultants teach contestants to layer on the make-up, rip off the wax, fill out the bra, and above all else, not to think too much. Interviews are not about authenticity; they’re about practice. Winning competitors must manufacture an identity and, in so doing, discard emotion and intellect in search of validation...
...Wear a dress and swimsuit that flatter your particular figure. Statistically and historically, white or nice blues seem to have graced the winners of pageants more than any other colors. Long, sleek and sexy gowns are better than big, puffy prom gowns. Don’t overdo it, yet for the Miss Harvard pageant, I figure anything goes! If you’re a male—I usually don’t recommend this for women in real pageants—show some leg and the cleavage that you worked so hard to produce for the night...
...typical pageant, you should dress conservatively with a flair—color, sequins—but don’t show too much skin. For Miss Harvard, though, I would say that anything goes.” (Poage...