• Allison Weatherly touches up her lipstick before competing in the Galveston Island Beach Revue Bathing Beauties Contest at the Hotel Galvez and Spa in Galveston, Texas, Saturday, May 20, 2017. Contestants donned vintage swimwear for the event which official signals the start of summer on the island. (Stuart Villanueva/The Galveston County Daily News via AP) Photo: Stuart Villanueva, Associated Press / © 2017 Stuart Villanueva/The Galveston County Daily News
Photo: Stuart Villanueva, Associated Press
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Vintage photos of the International Pageant of Pulchritude
Miss Chicago who represented the 'Windy City' at the International Pageant of Pulchritude. The title of 'Miss Universe' went to the Austrian representative, Lisl Goldarbeiter. The first time that a foreign beauty won the competition. Galveston, Texas. Photograph. 1929. (Photo by Austrian Archives (AA)
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Allison Weatherly touches up her lipstick before competing in the Galveston Island Beach Revue Bathing Beauties Contest at the Hotel Galvez and Spa in Galveston, Texas, Saturday, May 20, 2017. Contestants donned vintage swimwear for the event which official signals the start of summer on the island. (Stuart Villanueva/The Galveston County Daily News via AP)
The summer season has officially started in the Bay Area. 
The ninth annual Galveston Island Beach Revue kicked off this weekend. The highlight of the weekend was the "Bathing Beauties Contest," where over 40 women donned their best vintage swimwear for a beauty and personality contest. 
The spunky women showed off their vintage bathing suits on stage while classic tunes played during their catwalk.This year's Bathing Beauties Contest winner was Summer Sanderson from Beaumont. 
The ninth annual Galveston Island Beach Revue kicked off this weekend. The highlight of the weekend was the "Bathing Beauties Contest," where over 40 women donned their best vintage swimwear for a beauty and personality contest.
Media: Stringr, Courtesy of Hotel Galvez
Other events of the weekend included a classic car and vintage trailer show, live performances by Matt Tolentino Band and Dandy Wellington & His Band, and a Sunday brunch hosted by Hotel Galvez.
The modern beauty pageant with a vintage twist is inspired by Galveston's "Pageant of Pulchritude" held in the 1920s and '30s, which was the predecessor of the Miss Universe Pageant. The Depression stopped the pageant continuing, but it was resurrected in 2009 to celebrate the history of the event and signaling the start of the summer season in the Galveston area (even if it's been hot all winter).
Click through the gallery above to see the photos of this year's event and continue clicking to see vintage photos of the Pageant of Pulchritude from the '20s and '30s.
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