The pageant, which took place at 51 Elliot Street in Atlanta was held over three shows in two days - April 23 and 24 – and featured funny women of all shapes and sizes telling their most personal and hilarious anecdotes to a crowd – all the while wearing just their underwear.Īnd it wasn't just the ladies. Real girls, real underwear: The women didn't use any gimmicks, or even any push-up bras to cover up their real selvesĪnd talk these ladies did. 'And the more the concept developed, we discovered this to be a real opportunity to show what women actually look like, versus airbrushed strippers or burlesque dancers in expensive lingerie - all while giving women the opportunity to tell their real-life comedic stories on stage.'Īccording to Mandy’s Mashable piece, Pat posed the question about what would happen if women didn't have to use gimmicks or suggestive dancing or the like onstage to have 'a little sexy fun'? What if, he asked, 'they just - you know - talked’? He rationalized the idea based on the premise that 'I knew that anything with "naked lady" in the title would draw,' he told Mandy, who happens to be his girlfriend. The pageant spawned from an event created by journalist and comedian Pat Dixon back in 2011 called the Nearly Naked Lady Hour, which he came up with following the breakdown of a relationship. Miss Nearly Naked Lady is an event about real bodies versus Photoshopped ideals,' Mandy wrote, citing such campaigns as Dove's Choose Beautiful and Lane Bryant's #I'mNoAngel.
'Like the slew of corporate entities jumping on the body positivity bandwagon in recent months. The judge in her drawers: Journalist and comedian Mandy Stadtmiller (pictured) also took to the stage in her skivvies during the competition
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