I am not much of a recapper (I don’t even like pageants!). But I’m in this thing and must fulfill my duties until the end! So here is what you officially need to know about the 2007 Miss Universe pageant:
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So Miss America, from Tennessee I suppose, comes out during the gala o’ nations in an Elvis get-up. I am very into the possibilities of alternative identities for people of color, but, somehow, Elvis just can’t qualify. It’s just plain creepy.
I soon, however, regretted being so hard on Rachel Smith, for she fell during evening gown segment of the Miss Universe pageant. Ouch! It was pretty terrible, I must say.
Yet, somehow, she made it into the final five. (She must’ve had a whole lot points, huh?). But the audience wasn’t buying it, booing and jeering Miss America throughout the final question section.
Last month, I posted on some of the controversy surrounding Miss Mexico’s choice for her Miss Universe parade of nations gown. As you might recall, some found her gown politically tone-deaf in its depiction of scenes from the Cristero War, crazy in its inclusion of a band of bullets as its main accessory, and simply tiresome in its relative tackiness– especially during a time when various kinds of violences are spiraling out of control across Mexico. Now it seems that her dress has been changed. Since I’m not really into hanged martyrs, but totally into corn, I should take this change as positive, no?
Let’s have a look at Miss Mexico, v. 2!
Coincidentally, after my random in-class rant on nationalism and the Miss Universe contest, I came across this article at the BBC. It’s about Miss Mexico’s gown choice for this year’s Miss Universe pageant, which will be held May 28th in Mexico City. The gown was selected for Rosa Maria Ojeda Cuen from a field of thirty other dresses, and was admired because the selection committee “wanted a dress that made you think of Mexico.” Hector Terrones, who served on the selection committee, apparently also explained to La Jornada that “The design should grab people’s attention and have impact without giving too much information.” But critics, like La Jornada columnist Jorge Camil, vehemently disagree on the dress’ ‘message,’ claiming that:
It would be like Miss USA wearing a dress showing images of the Ku Klux Klan in the Deep South. [...] A beauty contest is very far from being the right
place to vent political and religious ideologies.
Oh my! Let’s have a look at this dress…
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