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April 18, 2007
AP: Miss Mexico modifies pageant dress depicting hangings, belted by bullets
Mark Allen, our friend and editor of the Olney Daily Mail, brought our attention to this story from the Associated Press:
MEXICO CITY: Miss Mexico is redesigning her Miss Universe pageant dress — not because it is too slinky or low-cut, but because it is too violent.The floor-length dress, belted by bullets and accented by sketches of hangings during Mexico's Roman Catholic uprising in the 1920s, outraged Mexicans who said it was in poor taste and inappropriate for the world's most important beauty contest.
Read the full story at the International Herald Tribune.
Posted by crispy at April 18, 2007 09:32 AM