Mystery Illustration 47

All of these women either won or competed for the same Beauty Queen title. What was that title?

The answer is here.

And after the jump.

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Posted By: Paul - Mon May 29, 2017
Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues | Contests, Races and Other Competitions | 1970s

Comments

The common reaction from the winners seems to be that this was total bullcrap. What a nice line one of them got in a bar: "So you're Miss Subways. How big is your tunnel?"

Posted by Virtual on 05/29/17 at 02:47 PM

Notice the hairstyles are B.F.F.M. - Before Farrah Fawcett Majors.

Posted by KDP on 05/30/17 at 08:06 AM

Usually, they had six candidates, characterized by 3 "A"s (African-American, Asian-American, Anglo-Saxon), and three "I"s [ancestry from Italy, Israel (i.e. Jewish), and Ireland].

Posted by Joshua Zev Levin, Ph.D. on 05/30/17 at 07:58 PM

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