“Miss Perfect Posture”
Mariana Baba, Lois Conway, and Ruth Swenson, contestants in the 1956 “Miss Perfect Posture” pageant, standing beside their X-ray pictures.
This was a beauty pageant competition where women were rated on both their outward look and posture. The X-rays of the competitors’ spines were used to assess their straightness, and the person with the best posture was declared the winner.
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