How To Find Your Evening Gown | Strategies for Choosing "The One" 

Way to go - it is indeed the perfect time to learn new skills. I commend you for your resourcefulness and thanks for your time in viewing my videos :)

You are so considerate for saying that! Your time is very valuable. The fact that you watch my videos (out of all the other content out there you could be watching) is really a privilege. ♥️ Let me know if you have any other suggestions and I’ll get to work haha 💪🏻

Thank you Mohammed! I didn’t realize I had male pageant contestants viewing so I appreciate you letting me know!

@@CrystalClues They watch your well-executed videos, Ma'am!

It's all you girl! You're going to be putting in the work so all credit to you!

You’re so welcome Sindhu

Glad you like them!

Kinda neat huh?? BTW you continue rocking your long hair girl, *hair whip* you do you 👏 🥰

What are your thoughts about the new changes for Miss Universe?

@msrain1235 I am not in agreement, especially concerning mothers of a young child/children, because the concern that Miss Universe travels a lot, so how will that requirement her motherly duties and impact her relationship

Hi Emma! Regarding slits, the answer is actually “it depends”; I find that if you are an older teen and on the taller, willowy side, it’s a lot easier to get away with a slit. I am one of the more progressive judges though so as long as the slit is tasteful and the posing is done conservatively (none of that long leg sticking out Angelina Jolie stuff) I am actually not against it and I wouldn’t knock points off for it. I wouldn’t necessarily it put it on a 14 year old unless she looked older, though.

Good for you on being resourceful! Make sure to take a look at other pageant videos out there too, there are many that are free - take advantage of everything and different viewpoints!

@@CrystalClues Sure mam. Need your blessings☺️

@@CrystalClues Can you suggest some channels related to pageant training because I have started training just few week before so I don't have that much knowledge to choose which is right or wrong to follow

Pink hair is not easy to pull off! You better work *snap*

Great idea, body types plus what's trendy in the world of evening gown fashion...you got me thinking!

Omg Kent TOTALLY. A lot of the Venezuela and Latin American countries’ National pageants are more competitive than some international systems

i agree, it defeats the whole point of joining MAO if the end goal is to win a scholarship award for college tuition.

Hi Tamara! Thanks for weighing in - you’re totally right - I was really talking about state and national level gowns. But in most pageant systems, having a budget for a gown is starting to be a real expectation. (A lot of the viewers watching here are competing in other systems where the scholarship components are often “marketing” elements more than genuine scholarship competitions that look at the scholastic achievement alone. They are entering a pageant for more than just the money. Any contestant that seeks only the scholarship would just apply for another type of scholarship contest that may be exclusively grades, letter of re , and paperwork-based, for instance.) I would say I didn’t emphasize enough that it expensive-looking correlates with higher placements at the more competitive level for state and beyond. But exceptions also apply - there have definitely been contestants who have won in 100 gowns and others who have won in 10,000 gowns. In the MAO program, an outstanding contestant at the local level who wears a paper bag could probably win because the dress is easily “fixable” by the committee. But in a lot of other systems, you will simply be drowned out by a sea of fabulous gowns worn by daughters with wealthy parents who fund their children’s’ hobbies. If you want to be generally competitive in the evening gown category across multiple systems, I felt comfortable benchmarking the gowns at $4-5k MSRP brand new. That’s just what the industry asks for. (And one of the reasons pageants pushes so many people away at first glance.) But what you pay for the gown isn’t always what it’s worth, if that makes sense. A $5k gown purchased for $1k can still look like a 5k gown. Fabric, material, fit, and brand all factor in to this. A lot of the miss america contestants who competed at the state level ended up getting those expensive gowns at a discount either second hand, borrowing, etc. I personally had a pageant executive director who had a rotating closet full of gowns that were rented out and lented out to contestants across the state for many years. It wasn’t until I got to Miss America that I realized how lucky I was and how rare that was. At the end of the day anyone watching this video or any of my advice is going to have to take what they agree with and ignore what they think isn’t helpful for them and their journey. They should be watching other videos and making the best decisions for themselves and I expect nobody to take every word I say as the law - it’s just my .02 from my experience.