Dale Mac Millan is a Pinup Doll Australia winner

The well-known local – who goes by the name Miss Dale Velvet-Rose – competed in the national event at Chromefest on the Central Coast.

Competition involves wearing day wear, evening wear and performing a talent with Dale taking out the Best Wardrobe and Miss Congeniality sections of the awards.

She first became involved in Pinup during the Wintersun event in Port Macquarie in 2012. The following year she competed in her first Miss Pinup Australia.

But her love of the era stems from her parents who were 6 o’clock rock fans while her mother was an Elvis fan.

For Dale Pinup is ‘almost like being a different person’.

“For me, Pinup is about spending an extra hour or so on myself, with make-up or doing my hair,” she said.

“Other women join Pinup to gain confidence in themselves or just taking some time out for themselves.

“Pinup goes back to the 1940s and ‘50s and captures a time when war time pilots pinned photographs of Betty Gable to their Lancaster bombers.

“Today, Pinup is involved at car shows, music festival – including Port Macquarie’s Beatles Festival and Port Panthers’ Rockin’ Retrofest  – and other events that depict that era.”

A successful businesswoman, Dale says she enjoys the transformation from accountant to Pinup.

She says there is a strong support-base among participants providing a connection with women around the world.

“I have friends around the world and we are in regular contact. It’s like a very strong sisterhood,” she said.

While creating a network of friends and colleagues is important, Dale also said contestants learn to get involved and to give back to the community as leaders and role models while affecting chance through volunteering, fundraising and advocacy.

Dale has organised hair and make-up workshops around NSW and in Port Macquarie during the year, and has organised Pinup competitions and fashion shows on the Mid-North Coast.