Beauty contest

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Miss Earth 2007 winners
The first beauty contest in Spa in 1888

In a beauty contest , candidates compete with one another and are evaluated by a committee with regard to appearance or other properties according to a point system. The first place winners are often crowned beauty kings with sonorous titles. For women , the title often consists of Miss (or Mister for men ) plus the name of the state, country or region, city or institution (with numerous exceptions, however) Miss America , Miss Austria , Miss France , Miss Germany , Mister Germany . In addition, the winners of the evaluation usually receive prizes and also achieve an enormous advertising effect.

The most famous competition is the Miss World election . In the German-speaking area, the competitions for Miss Germany, Miss Austria, Miss Switzerland and Miss Liechtenstein are still known. Competitions for men are less popular. In Switzerland, however, the election of Mister Switzerland is also popular. There are also competitions for children, minorities, places, animals, flowers or vehicles.

On September 19, 1888, the first European beauty contest took place in Spa, Belgium . 21 of the 350 female applicants reached the final, where an exclusively male jury “assessed” them in camera. Eighteen-year-old Bertha Soucaret from Guadeloupe was chosen as the most beautiful woman ; as a prize she received 5000 Belgian Francs .

The biggest competitions

According to the number of candidates, these are currently (or were temporarily) the seven largest international beauty pageants:

Miss
World
Miss
Universe
Miss
International
Miss
Intercontinental
Miss
Earth
Miss
Tourism Queen International
Miss
Supranational
year since 1951 since 1952 since 1960 1973–1983 /
1986–1991 /
1991–0000 /
since 2001 since 2004 since 2009
2001 93 77 52 33 42 - -
2002 88 75 47 33 53 - -
2003 106 71 45 34 57 - -
2004 107 80 58 54 61 55 -
2005 102 81 52 61 80 72 -
2006 104 86 59 45 82 86 -
2007 106 77 61 41 88 108 -
2008 109 80 63 57 85 113 -
2009 112 83 65 56 80 98 36
2010 115 83 70 58 84 (postponed to 2011) 66
2011 120 88 67 60 95 92 70
2012 116 89 69 53 80 - 82
2013 127 86 67 59 88 43 83
2014 121 88 73 68 84 - 71
2015 114 80 70 62 86 52 82
2016 117 86 69 63 83 33 71

See also

Web links

Wiktionary: beauty contest  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. Miss World ( Memento of the original from June 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at pageantopolis.com (English). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pageantopolis.com
  2. Miss Universe ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2012 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at pageantopolis.com (English). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pageantopolis.com
  3. Miss International at pageantopolis.com (English).
  4. Miss Intercontinental ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at pageantopolis.com (English). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pageantopolis.com
  5. Note 1973 "Miss Teenage Peace International". In July 1974, before the 1974 competition, it was renamed: Miss Teenage Intercontinental. From 1977 the title was Miss Teen Intercontinental, the competition was not renamed to this shorter form until 1978. In 1982 "Teen" was removed from the name. Source: http://www.pageantopolis.com/1972-1979.html > Miss Intercontinental.
  6. Miss Earth ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at pageantopolis.com (English). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pageantopolis.com
  7. Miss Tourism Queen ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at pageantopolis.com (English). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pageantopolis.com
  8. Miss Supranational at missosology.org (English).