Murder has suddenly thrust the world of children's beauty pageants into the spotlight. Since 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was found strangled in her Boulder, Colo., basement last month, national magazines and TV shows have run photographs and videotapes of the bleached-blonde woman-child vamping across stages in showgirl costumes and heavy makeup. There are thousands of children like JonBenet. Charles Dunn, publisher of Pageantry magazine, estimates that, every year, beauty pageants show off 100,000 children under the age …showed first 75 words of 979 total…

…showed last 75 words of 979 total…black woolen bathing ensemble with knee-high stockings and floppy black hat. Bathing suit styles changed drastically through the 1920s. The clumsy Victorian-style bathing costumes worn by Gorman and her colleagues evolved into form-fitting outfits. Stockings, however, were still routine attire. Some say these unlined bathing costumes, made of wool material that clung to the body when wet, were sexier than the suits of elasticized fabrics that became available in the 1930s and '40 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**