The candidacy of Donald Trump makes a shambles of everything many of us hold dear.
Time was when the man did things that were merely creepy, like getting involved with beauty pageant. Actually, I think the whole idea of a beauty pageant is pretty creepy, even if they make some pretense at judging a young woman by her brains and not merely by her body.
But a Miss Universe contest, with or without The Donald behind it, cannot compare to this:
Apparently, there were "Miss Lovely Eyes" contests, like the one in the above photo (which took place in Florida around 1930), in many different parts of the world. The only difference between them, it seemed, was in how much of the contestants' faces and bodies were covered in order to isolate their "windows to the soul".
Hmm...I wonder if they ever held such contests in countries ruled by Sharia law?
Time was when the man did things that were merely creepy, like getting involved with beauty pageant. Actually, I think the whole idea of a beauty pageant is pretty creepy, even if they make some pretense at judging a young woman by her brains and not merely by her body.
But a Miss Universe contest, with or without The Donald behind it, cannot compare to this:
Apparently, there were "Miss Lovely Eyes" contests, like the one in the above photo (which took place in Florida around 1930), in many different parts of the world. The only difference between them, it seemed, was in how much of the contestants' faces and bodies were covered in order to isolate their "windows to the soul".
Hmm...I wonder if they ever held such contests in countries ruled by Sharia law?
Perhaps the folks who made the Hannibal Lecter masks in the first photo ( I wish it had higher resolution so we could see the inscriptions on them!) came out of retirement to design this:
Yes, this was actually touted as a "bicycling hat"! And it was available in four colors, no doubt to co-ordinate with your favorite cycling abaya:
After all, what is cycle clothing but a fashion statement? Still, even the best-coordinated outfit has nothing on a pair of beautiful eyes, even if you can't see them because you or the person who has them is riding too fast.
(By the way, I have been told I have beautiful eyes by people of all genders and sexualities. But no one has ever told me so while I was riding!)
That hat would be problematic when riding into even a mild headwind.
ReplyDeleteSteve--You're right. I've ridden with a Crocodile Dundee-style hat, and with other kinds of headwear meant to block the sun, and even the slightest headwind played havoc with it--and me!
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