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

[@kristiewalt]

i started watching your videos and learning at home during quarantine thanks you very much ♥️♥️

[@CrystalClues]

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 :)

[@sindhukumari4975]

Very helpful... it was like you read my mind and speaking all of those out .. thank you for doubly confirming my thoughts

[@CrystalClues]

You’re so welcome Sindhu

[@ciattylovesperoni]

Crystal thank you so much for your efforts! I see you putting so much work in these videos and i appreciate it!! ❤️

[@CrystalClues]

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 💪🏻

[@lyna4628]

I am in love with gowns.

[@lonewolfkai7766]

Your videos are doing miracles for me and are turning my pageant life around

[@CrystalClues]

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

[@isaiahfayiah8244]

I love your videos and thanks for your knowledge

[@princesslightningstrike4592]

This is fun! I love it.

[@CrystalClues]

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

[@mohammadangginugrohomcjogja]

So informative. But, believe me there are many male pageant enthusiasts watching your videos. Special episodes for male pageants would be great!

[@CrystalClues]

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

[@mohammadangginugrohomcjogja]

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

[@mariecharles212]

That's so overwhelming 😂 great detailed video

[@jsoliven1155]

Thank you so much for the wonderful advise I love watching your videos.

[@CrystalClues]

Glad you like them!

[@MarQue6271]

I really love your pageant info videos. Thx so much for sharing and dropping in those extra nuggets. Much appreciated. Doing my 1st adult pageant, so excited and enamored over this niche industry. 🎉❤✨

[@relydbrowning6037]

Luv, luv this video. So much to learn 🌷where do you find these fashion design students!? Thanks!!😘

[@ommahajan814]

Love with these videos

[@dl733]

I am a male ... a huge pageant fan. I just came upon your video I always thought that you would cross over to the Miss USA system. With yesterday's announcement, from the Miss Universe Organization, that there is now no age limit, please consider trying out for a State pageant. BTW, I forwarded your video to 6 international Miss Universe Organization Directors

[@msrain1235]

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

[@dl733]

@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

[@shalinichakraborty.12]

It's very much helpful Thank you so much for this❤ Lots of love from 🇮🇳

[@AbbieDavis-i2n]

What are your opinion on full sequins dresses?

[@teodoromaranan1415]

all your videos are good

[@mridula_srivastava7]

Namaste🙏☺️..... I'm training myself by watching your videos and I want to meet you someday when I'll be one of the beauty pageants titleholder.❤️

[@CrystalClues]

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!

[@mridula_srivastava7]

@@CrystalClues Sure mam. Need your blessings☺️

[@mridula_srivastava7]

@@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

[@icysweetsy]

I love to wear gowns👗👗

[@May_lean]

Hi crystal ,.. may i ask..if a pageant asked us to dress up bon voyage,..something to represent a country world wide.. does that mean wearing up in heritage

[@Jennifer-x8h]

Can wear a ballroom gown for the evening gown event

[@koyenabiswas6449]

A video sharing information about what type of dress should be worn according to body type , in my last show i wore a dress which looked fine but after i wore i i recognised body type dress is important, pls 😅

[@CrystalClues]

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

[@princess_skye7547]

Can you give some sites of where to get evening gowns from ?

[@mousumikuila6621]

Very Helpful 👍👍👍 Thanku

[@emmaboonabi]

Love your videos!! I was wondering your opinion about teen candidates (MAOTeen) having slits in their evening gowns-- I happen to have a ball gown with a slit and I'm trying to decide whether to sew it up or not. (For reference it's not a HIGH slit, it hits just above the knee) Again, love your videos

[@CrystalClues]

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.

[@princessroxyvincenzo9880]

I remember the times when I had black hair and many times I was wearing black clothes, black dresses and high heels and some people said that I am usually all black, expect colour skin, I also loved gold, I still love but I realized that I want to change my style a bit, now I have pink long hair and I wear more colorful and sweet clothes but I love black and gold still.

[@CrystalClues]

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

[@princesscrystal7351]

Great.

[@taniyachamling8728]

Can i hold the gown while walking

[@lavidagreta2860]

Thank you so much ,it really help me a lot xx

[@princessroxyvincenzo9880]

Cool.

[@manipulatorxxx9620]

Venezuela's pageant gowns are the best. I always watch their national pageant before they send the winners to international stage

[@CrystalClues]

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

[@karyrodriguez6651]

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[@Squirrelbear5950]

You don’t need to spend $4,000 on your gown if it’s for a local or state pageant, in the MAO system.

[@Oak7565]

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

[@tamaraallard7321]

No disrespect. I love your content, but $4,000 to $6,000 for a gown? Maybe for Miss America or Miss USA but definitely not for a local/state competition? Personally, I've never spent more than $700 at a state or local pageant and I've won a state evening gown preliminary award. This especially doesn't make sense for a scholarship competition.

[@CrystalClues]

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.

[@reginakamati4837]

How to give an introductory at a pageant

[@brooklynusa670]

Best gown cost thousands