The Pink Dress : A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen

For fans of Little Miss Sunshine and Secrets of Miss America, this memoir from a national award-winning author reveals the reality of being the first Guyrex Girl in the 1970s. Beauty pageant stories have never been this raw, this real. Growing up in West Texas, Jane Little Botkin didn? have designs on becoming a beauty queen. But not long after joining a pageant on a whim in college, she became the first prot??of El Paso? Richard Guy and Rex Holt, known as the ?ings of Beauty?just as the 1970? counterculture movement began to take off. A pink, rose-covered gown? Guyrex creation?ymbolizes the fairy tale life that young women in Jane? time imagined beauty queens had. Its near destruction exposes reality: the author? failed relationship with her mother, and her parents?failed relationship with one another. Weaving these narrative threads together is the Wild West notion that anything is possible, especially do-overs. The Pink Dress awakens nostalgia for the 1960s and 1970s, the era? conflicts and growth pains. A common expectation that women went to college to get ?RS?degrees?o find a husband and become a stay-at-home wife and mother?ften prevailed. How does one swim upstream against this notion among feminist voices that protest ?f You Want Meat, Go to a Butcher!?at beauty pageants, two flamboyant showmen, and a developing awareness of self? Torn between women? traditional roles and what women could be, Guyrex Girls evolved, as did the author.

Author: Jane Little Botkin

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Publication Date: Sep 10, 2024

Number of Pages: 304 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1647427401

ISBN-13: 9781647427405