FASHION SHOWS, STRIP SHOWS AND BEAUTY PAGEANTS:

FASHION SHOWS, STRIP SHOWS AND BEAUTY PAGEANTS:
THE THEATRE OF THE FEMININE IDEAL
by
TARA MAGINNIS
B.A., San Francisco State University, 1981
M.A., California State University, Fresno, 1985

A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty
of the University of Georgia in Partial Fulfillment
of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

FASHION SHOWS, STRIP SHOWS AND BEAUTY PAGEANTS:
THE THEATRE OF THE FEMININE IDEAL
by
TARA MAGINNIS

This work is dedicated to
Marle Winkler Simon
Who, sensibly,
would have thought this work was
a lot of words
to no great purpose.
But, being my Grandmother,
she would have told me it was brilliant
anyway.

I would like to thank a number of people for help in
gathering the information that went into this work, most
significantly the librarians of the Marin County Library,
Civic Center Branch, for helping me to find an inordinate
amount of data on what must have seemed to be the most
bizarre, kinky and trivial group of topics. Additionally, I
wish to thank Fairchild Books and Visuals for permission to
reproduce the runway diagrams from How to Produce a Fashion
Show, Grove-Weidenfeld for permission to reproduce the
illustration of the Hanimichi bridge from The Kabuki
Theatre, Penguin USA for permission to reproduce the
photographs from There She Is, and the Miss America Pageant
organization, Negrete's American International Organization,
Madison Square Gardens Productions, and Pageants
Incorporated for sending me useful literature. Tara L.
Baxter of Media Watch also kindly provided assistance and
information, as did Dixie Evans ("The Marilyn Monroe of
Burlesque") the president of The Burlesque Historical
Society of America. Most significantly, my parents Leo and
Marion Maginnis provided every kind of support possible
(including videotaping pageants, typing rough drafts of this
work, and keeping me sane) and really deserve much more
thanks than anyone could adequately express in words.

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