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A child beauty pageant is a controversial [1] [2] [3] beauty contest featuring contestants under 18 years of age. Competition categories may include talent , interview , sportswear , casual wear , swimwear, western wear, theme wear, outfit of choice, decade wear, and evening wear .
The term beauty pageant refers originally to the Big Four beauty pageants: Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Hundreds and thousands of beauty contests are held annually, [ 4 ] but the Big Four are considered the most prestigious, [ 5 ] and are widely covered and broadcast by news media .
A beauty pageant or beauty contest is a competition that has traditionally focused on judging and ranking the physical attributes of contestants. Pageants have now evolved to include other criteria, such as personality, intelligence, talent, character, causes, and charitable involvement, through closed-door interviews with judges, or the conventional question-and-answer round(s) in the finals.
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Ahead of the Miss Teen USA Pageant, AOL.com is looking at contemporary views of beauty and how they are shaping the next generation of Americans. Miss Universe was first introduced to the world as ...
It was already an established national pageant before Miss Universe, Inc. began its own version of it in 1983. [2] [3] The first Miss Teen USA competition first took place as a mail-in photo contest conducted by Teen magazine in 1959. [2] [4] It later took place as a live stage event. [5]
The pageant continued from 1962 to 1968 in which they made debut as annual live stage event. [9] [10] [11]The 1962 Miss Teen USA was named at the Teen-Age Fair, a ten-day event, over the Easter holiday, [12] in April, held at the Pacific Ocean Park in Santa Monica, California, which had 32 teenaged girls from across the United States participating and Linda Henning, a 15-year-old from Sioux ...