Beauty Queen: Here She Comes

By Elissa Stein

Each year over 700,000 beauty pageants are held in cities and towns the world over. Here is a celebration of that glitz and that glory. From Miss Universe to Miss Potato Blossom, this colorful book showcases pageants large and small, focusing on the heyday of beauty contests from the 1930s to the 1970s. Chapters on fashion, talent, bathing-suit competitions, and congeniality are packed with insider information on exactly what it takes to win the crown, secrets to looking perennially polished and poised, and tidbits on the beauty queen wave, talent dos and donts, and pageant etiquette. With over 100 vintage photos, Beauty Queen is a sweetly nostalgic ode to pageantry perfection.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811848647
• ISBN13: 9780811848640
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 1.0" x 1.0"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

"Beauty Queen: Here She Comes" is a feel good book!

This book is a feel good book! In my youth, I was in beauty pageants, it was the "in" thing to do for young ladies to gain self-esteem and boy did I gain self-esteem for those activities, I made lifelong friends and it was truly the best thing I had ever done. Even in today's world which is ripe with problems, challenges and in my opinion, devoid of much joy, this book reigns supreme. I think everyone should read it, it's a great look into the past, present and future, instilling much hope in a reader's heart and mind. I highly recommend this book. Sit back with a cup of your favorite tea, and enter a world that you haven't entered into for a very long time. I know I did and I loved it. Thank you for writing this book.