Miss Mexicos’ Fab Dress
Miss Mexico Rosa Maria Ojeda in THE dress.
Miss Mexico is really working it, showing off her dress for the Miss Universe Pagaent to be held in Mexico City later this year. And what is she showing off? A dress that not only has the Holy Mother Virgin of Guadalupe over her po-nanny, but pictures of dead people hanging by their necks, people facing firing sqauds and a bullet belt. If John Waters did a version of THE PRODUCERS set in Tabasco this dress is the sort of thing he’d come up with. Oh that we were all so beautiful, dumb and Catholic.
Excerpts are from “Miss Mexico nixes violent images dress” By JULIE WATSON – Associated Press Writer. The photos were sent to me by loving pals.
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.Critics said it glorified violence in a country were a battle between rival drug gangs has brought a wave of killings and beheadings.
Designers who helped select the dress from among 30 entries said they had wanted something that represented the nation’s culture and history, especially since Mexico City is hosting the pageant in May…
Cut from a traditional, natural cotton called manta, the dress depicted scenes from the 1926-1929 Cristero war, an uprising by Roman Catholic rebels against Mexico’s secular government, which was imposing fiercely anti-clerical laws. Tens of thousands of people died.
The dress unleashed a storm of criticism. La Jornada carried close-ups of controversial images from the dress, including a man facing a firing squad…
Miss Mexico, Rosa Maria Ojeda, presented the dress March 29, showing off the billowing, hoop skirt adorned with sketches of Roman Catholic rebels hanging from posts. Rosaries and scapularies hung from her bullet-studded, bandolier belt. She completed the outfit with a huge crucifix necklace, a black halter top and a wide-brimmed sombrero…
“It would be like Miss USA wearing a dress showing images of the Ku Klux Klan in the Deep South, with their hoods, their burning crosses and beer cans,” he wrote. “A beauty contest is very far from being the right place to vent political and religious ideologies.”…
Pageant spokeswoman Esther Swan said the new skirt will have ribbons and ruffles – but no images.
As Madonna has proven, crucifixes are HOT.
Is that the dress designer? Whats on HER top?
Note the fully covered bosom, typical sex is bad, violence is ok Catholic thought form.
Firing squads are not pretty or funny. Unless they get asked what they want on their Tombstones and they order a pizza, then they are funny. 
The shawl is dramatic. Does her sombrero light up?
Nothing sets off a road lined with dead people hanging by their necks like golden sparkles