Since its conception in 1921, the Miss America pageant has become a historical staple of the United States. From its humble start as a marketing scheme to its current achievement of crowning the ideal female American role model, the pageant has been dominated by the women of New York State. The Miss New York competition has seen six of its representatives achieve the ultimate crown of Miss America, with three of those wins as an unprecedented and historical back-to-back "threepeat." Beginning in 1921 with well-known actress and model Virginia Lee as Miss New York City through the decades of shrinking bathing suits and burgeoning talents to today's community servant and public spokeswoman, the representatives of the Miss New York competition prove that brains and beauty will always make an unstoppable equation for success.