CONSUELO ACUÑA - (1930)
1930 MISS PHILIPPINES. The pride of Iloilo, Consuelo Acuna ("Monina") y Zaldarriaga, comes from a family of beauty titlists. Her official portrait shows her in a crown inspired by the Philippine flag and its emblems.
The 1930 Manila Carnival began on an auspicious note—a new decade of Flapper modernism in which Filipinos began to adapt more and more, the American way, especially in fashion. The selection of this year’s queen was marred by the controversial “bathing suit incident”, in which supposedly, the finalists were forced to wear bathing suits and parade before the judges, which created quite a furor among the girls, their families, school heads and other moral guardians.