Browsing: Historical

Miss Universe, the Dutch girls… the 50’s

The modern Miss Universe pageant started in 1952 in Miami Beach, Florida. The Netherlands didn’t participate in the first 4 pageants but started to participate in 1956. We will look back to all those beautiful dutch


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Kim’s 5 so far, Miss Universe….

On january 25th a new Miss Universe will be crowned in Doral, Miami. Kim Kötter, who was Miss Universe Netherlands back in 2002 will be sending her 6th girl to this pageant. So far Kim was


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Kim’s 5 so far, Miss World….

The Miss World pageant has started last week and the Netherlands is represented by Tatjana Maul. She is the 6th girl Kim Kötter sends to this prestigieus pageant. Although Miss Kötter never participated in Miss World


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Historical Miss World 1986

Every big pageant in the world has off course the famous National Costume parade. The idea is to show the world a  little about your country’s culture, wearing a traditional costume or a fantasy costume designed


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Historical Miss Benelux 1959

In 1959 there was a Miss Benelux pageant for the first time. The countries of the Benelux are: Belgium, Netherlands and Luxemburg. All three countries send 3 girls to this pageant which was held in Tilburg (the


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Historical Miss Holland 1935

Today we launch a new column on our website: Historical. In this column we will dig into the history of beauty pageants in the Netherlands and compare this with present. We start with an article from


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