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Out at beauty contest

LONG BEACH - Jenelle Evyn Hutcherson isn't the typical beauty pageant contestant.

Her hair is spiked and colored teal, and her nose is pierced. She has a few tattoos, including red lips on her neck and "What Comes Around Goes Around" on her forearm.

The 25-year-old hair stylist and Long Beach resident also is setting a record - next month Hutcherson will be the first out lesbian to compete in the Miss Long Beach pageant, which started in 1950.

Hutcherson says she entered the pageant to motivate people to re-evaluate their definitions of beauty and to represent the diversity of Long Beach women.

She won't be wearing an evening gown and heels; Hutcherson is designing and sewing her own tuxedo.

Her escort for the evening will be her mother, Yvonne Mydland, who lives in Bakersfield.

Source: Long Beach Press-Telegram

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Out at beauty contest

Long Beach Press-Telegram - Dec 31, 1969

Rudd went a step further and suggested she enter Hutcherson told Rudd she wouldn't wear a dress and heels, but she would don a tuxedo. Rudd loved the idea and changed the evening gown category to formal attire, he said. Earlier this year, Hutcherson

Engineering marvels sewn in silk

Chicago Tribune - Dec 31, 1969

The Tree dress, a rose-pink evening gown named for Mrs. Ronald Tree (Marietta Peabody Tree), shows the designer's prowess with pleats and is accompanied by a replica. Yet another replica reveals the techniques that allowed James to create the Clover

Remember when local shops ruled?

OCRegister - Dec 31, 1969

Everyone sighed as they remembered the prom dresses and school clothes they had purchased for their daughters at Jabberwocky. "Too bad," one huffed, "Margaret Pottenger isn't dressing my granddaughters." They certainly could use the fashion guidance