Betty Hogg of Guelph, Ont., remembers her brief foray into beauty pageants fondly, though she admits if she could go back, she’d think twice about getting into them.
“I didn’t know any better,” said Hogg, who now calls herself a “real women’s libber.”
Elgin County Archives recently shared a black-and-white photo from 1949 of Hogg and eight other pageant contestants at the West Lorne Beauty Contest in southwestern Ontario. The young women stand tall in their bathing suits and heels, and flash their brightest, widest smiles. At 16, Hogg is fourth from the left.
I was always the odd one. I couldn’t learn. I couldn’t memorize. I couldn’t do spelling.- Betty Hogg
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