I like the issue of dealing with beauty and how it changes over time.

It would be nice if you could see the images of the Miss Americas in the context of the line graphs. -MH

Looks like we all got booted. Comments on this one will be sparse for that reason. The images seem to speak well for themselves; your intuition to somehow bring out those photos more is a good one. -SB

I like the way you scaled the photos to their actual height.-Jon
It might also be interesting to get data about each state (Miss California, etc).

Really cool idea, I kind of wish you had kept the obesity rates, or maybe included some more information about the women.  Some scary statistics you might want to include is age range, life spans, race, popular names, etc. I did like the pictures of the women scaled to height.  Nice detective work though! -Amanda

This is a new york times interactive piece you might find interesting for the interaction, http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/08/01/sports/20080802_TORCH_GRAPHIC.html

are you trying to make a visualization of america’s idea of “perfection” or an actual visualization of ameria?America’s idea of “perfection”. Including the Obesity rates would have been a visualization of America.
i also think the timeline image is nice, but when comparing that to trends, it seems to not show those points as clearly, just a change in fashion.

This could also make a really nice print piece. Try combining the graph data with the photos by overlaying it somehow?

Interesting idea but I wonder how you could make it more interactive. I kind of feel like this could be more successful if it were either one large and very beautiful, clean, static visualization, or a more playful approach with different filters and interactions and things you can do with it.

Strong work collecting that data; I recommend open-sourcing it as well. Consider stacking your graphs in parallel.