Miss Rodeo Utah’s pageant chaps. Photo courtesy of Sherry Smith Photography, via Miss Rodeo America
If you’re not already tuned in to the nation’s beauty pageant circuit, you absolutely must check out the spectacle that is Miss Rodeo America .
- Specifically, the pageant’s chap design contest is a thing of wonder.
Driving the news: Miss Rodeo Utah McKardy Kelly won the People’s Choice Award for her dazzling duds at the pageant, held in early December in Las Vegas.
- The Utah Tech University student and daughter of Midway also was 3rd runner up overall and won the pageant’s speech category.
Zoom in: The chaps feature shimmering sego lilies sewn with jewels onto white leather.
The big picture: The chaps designed by Miss Rodeo Texas won the judges’ award.
- We also were impressed by Arizona’s desert landscape theme and Kentucky’s glittering homage to bourbon .