The Top 40

No bra?

Flat as a board and never been nailed.

To me she looks demure and very pretty in an old fashioned way.

When were hair brushes invented?

I dunno, this one appeals to me. She vibes clean, pure, simple. This gal would look just as pretty climbing out of a horse trough as she would in a fancy dress. That is beauty.

The ones we got nowadays, the movie stars included, they'd look better if they shaved their asses and walked backward. Oh, wait, you say they are doing that already? And they need all the facial chemicals and potions and custom-fitted clothes and botox and implants and ... and ... PhotoShopping and forty three takes on any
scene they do for a film.

This gal has it all as a natural.

Hey, that my cousin Paula (sort of).
Lorna Ringler Graham, originally of Media, PA, was Miss Pennsylvania 1956. Lorna is my first cousin, once removed. Her aunt, Ruth Malcomson, was Miss America 1924. Ruth was the third Miss America, following Margaret Gorman (1921) and Mary Campbell (who won twice, in 1922 and 1923). The September 12, 1925 edition of LIBERTY Magazine, New York, features an article, authored by Ruth, entitled: “How I Became Miss America – Flappers Take Notice! Here’s a National Beauty Prize Winner Who Believes in Being Old-Fashioned.”
At seventeen, after being coaxed into the competition, Ruth Malcomson won a Silver Sea Shell as the winner of the amateur division in the 1923 Bather's Revue. A year later she returned as "Miss Philadelphia" in the Inter-City contest for the Miss America title and to face-off against the largest field in Miss America History -- 84 representatives. She narrowly defeated returning champion Mary Katherine Campbell after hours of deliberation.
Ruth spent most of her year around the Philadelphia area visiting schools, hospitals, and senior centers. And traveling in her prize: a Dagmar automobile.
Ruth decided not to defend her title due to her belief that professionals were entering the Inter-City competition as a Hollywood film was to be shot around the 1925 pageant. Her decision drew controversy in the press, and began false speculation that the pageant wasn't on the up and up. The pageant committee quickly instituted a new rule that no Miss America could return to competition.

I meant to write Ruth, not Paula.
There are other pictures you can find on the internet that show she was a beauty. I have a picture of her with the Silver Sea Shell (which is quite large), and my cousin has one of her in the Dagmar.

She is very pretty but yeah they had brushes back then, wonder what happened.

"This gal would look just as pretty climbing out of a horse trough as she would in a fancy dress. That is beauty."

My thoughts exactly and one of the reasons I chose her.

As for breasts, they were,... i note..... natural. In addition the bras of that time were not wire constructions but tended to be much softer all around.

Also, there was a style then that called for breasts to be flattened and deemphasized.

"The brassiere was invented in the early 1900s as a way to keep the bust controlled when the underbust (or at least low-bust) corset was introduced in the Edwardian period. Early brassieres were meant as bust enhancers for those who were not well endowed. Their horizontal boning was meant to imitate a large bust, not support one. But by the 1920s, brassieres had become unboned constructions of non-stretchy material designed to hold the bust close to the body. The narrow strips of darted cloth known as bandeaux had the same function.

The bandeau and brassiere could be worn with a girdle-like hip corset (to which they were attached with that hook you see in the cover art) or they could be worn alone with the new “belt” — a wide elastic band almost like a micro-mini skirt that was worn to keep the hips from jiggling."

http://www.reconstructinghistory.com/blog/golden-age-of-travel-1920s-underwear.html

To me the picture shows that nothing is "new under the sun". The hair style and the blouse could be the 60's to the present time.

( Now with current Japanese fashion, I'm not so sure...)

Steph, you have good genes in your family! Thanks for sharing the interesting background with us.

Wasn't Miss America "on" the boardwalk, then? Would explain the wind-tossed coiffure, I think.

Agree, she's a natural beauty who doesn't need artificial enhancement, whether in her face or her bustline. I also don't mind the hair. What I like best, though, is the sweet expression she has. She just looks like she'd be nice to be around.

She looks clean.

She had naturally curly hair, and the humidity was high—that's what happens. (** sigh **) The long curls at the end were probably conditioned by lanolin or something like that, and could withstand the humidity a bit longer. At that stage, a comb or brush through her hair would have made it even frizzier, not tamer.

She looks lovely and feminine, and reminds me of the picture of the girl on the scooter on the other side of this blog, who is probably looking at her fingernails as she waits for traffic to move. Three years after that year, 1968, I went to the outdoor Greek Theater (Hollywood) in the evening, with my hair desperately ironed—yes, ironed, so it would look straight and non-frizzy—and by the end of the evening my hair was a huge fluffy frizzball. But almost all of us females in the audience wore pretty dresses, like the girl on the scooter.

The GOAL was to look lovely and feminine, and it was an excellent goal, even though the loveliness was sometimes more a matter of expression and posture if you were plain.

It felt wonderful.

She looks like Eliza Rickman:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_DcPY4SkfM

By the lack of muscle tone in her arms I'd say she was a rich man's daughter. Women worked terribly hard at everything around the house in those days unless they had servants to do it for them.