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Date Posted: 13:22:26 09/02/07 Sun
Ad sales: Much like the booster pages in the back of the pageant program, ad sales are an important part of the pageant competition. In major pageants like the American Coed system, the girls who sell the most ads are awarded the Hostess Crown, which is almost as coveted as the beauty crown.
Banner: There are two definitions for banners. The first is the sash that pageant queens wear. The second are internet banners made to wish contestants good luck, and for parents to brag (in a good way) about their children.
Boutique: Usually refers to outfits that have had embellishment of some sort added to them. Some have even been re-designed completely. Boutique clothing is used in the modeling/ sportswear portion of many pageants.
Casual Wear: In pageant-speak, casual wear is not sweats and sneakers. In fact, casual wear would indicate a very nice but comfortable outfit. Capri's and a fancy but comfortable top would be considered casual wear.
Coach: A coach is someone who helps contestants win pageants. They usually have prior pageant experience through either a crown of their own, or a child with several crowns. The experience can be invaluable.
Coed: Coed could mean boys and girls, but it also means female college student. The American Coed Pageant does not have boys competing, but instead started as a college scholarship pageant. It still provides scholarships for coeds, but also included competitions for girls as young as 3 years old.
Crowing Dress: These special dresses are reserved for returning queens who are crowning their successor. While not used in all pageants, (many returning queens wear last years dress) they are very nice dresses, many of which are embellished with rhinestones or other sparkly material.
Cupcake: This is a dress style used for young girls in glitz pageants: The dress resembles a tutu, and has layers of translucent ruffles.
Extensions: These are hairpieces added to real hair to give more length and body.
Flippers: Fake teeth for young girls who have missing teeth.
Fall: A certain type of hairpiece that covers the back of the head and allows the contestant to shortcut hair styling.
Glitz: A type of pageant that allows makeup on young children and babies as well as clothing covered in rhinestones. These pageants focus specifically on beauty. The opposite of a glitz pageant would be a natural/ scholarship pageant. Contestants also wear hair extensions, flippers (fake teeth), and are dressed to look much older than they really are.
Grand: This phrase in used in glitz pageants to designate the level of reward.
Modeling Routine: At pageants, runway is a lot more than just walking. Contestants need to smile big, and should be able to do a number of turns and poses to catch the judge's eye.
National: National pageants include girls from all over the country. The contestants generally consist of girls who won local and state pageants.
Natural: In natural pageants, contestants under a certain age are not allowed to wear makeup, hair extensions, or flippers (fake teeth). Clothing and jewelry should be age appropriate.
No compete clause: Some of the more major pageants do not allow girls to compete in other pageants during the year of their reign.
Optionals: Contests that girls can compete in that have no effect on whether or not they win the beauty crown. Optionals include runway, talent, speech, ad sales, photogenic, and more.
Photogenic: Many contests have an optional contest for photogenic (best photograph).
Pro-am modeling: Type of modeling used in glitz pageants that can include acrobatics and extra showing off.
Rhinestone: Most pageant clothing in glitz, and often the formal wear in natural pageants, has rhinestone embellishment added to make it glitter under the lights.
RWB (red white and blue): Many pageant contestants prefer patriotic clothing in their casual wear and modeling routines. You will see the term RWB on many message boards advertising this genre of clothing for sale.
Shells: A shell is a basic dress or dress form, which then needs to be embellished with ribbons, trim, and rhinestones before it is pageant ready.
Sponsorship fee: Each pageant comes with an entry fee. It is suggested that contestants find a sponsor to pay the fee. In fact, many pageants call the entry fee a sponsorship fee.
Sportswear: This is another genre of clothing used in the runway or modeling segment of the pageants.
Supreme: The word supreme designates the high winner in a glitz pageant.
Tiara: Pageant winner are awarded tiaras (crowns) to wear on their heads.
Title: Pageant winners hold a title designating which pageants they a have won.
Trophy: Pageant winners and runner-ups receive a trophy that shows what they won.
Up do: This highly styled type of hairdo is used primarily in glitz pageants and also for adults in regular pageants. Up do's are discouraged in natural pageants because they are not age appropriate.
Western Wear: This is another genre of clothing used in the runway or modeling segment of the pageants. In places where western wear is common, the modeling segment many simply be called western wear.
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