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Miss Australia's national costume is a 'travesty'
Daily Telegraph ^ | July 29th 2010 | Staff

Posted on 08/01/2010 2:09:21 AM PDT by Cardhu

The costume, which will be worn by Jesinta Campbell at the competition in Las Vegas next month, features high-heeled Ugg boots, a brown one piece swimming costume hand-painted by an Aboriginal artist and a lamb's wool shrug. The ensemble is topped off by a voluminous flamenco-inspired rainbow skirt.

While Miss Campbell, 18, has said that she thinks the costume is "incredible", the pastiche of styles has failed to win many fans in Australia, and has been called eye-catching, but for all the wrong reasons.

Melbourne's Herald Sun newspaper said the costume was "a national joke" and members of the fashion industry have agreed.

Clare Maclean, fashion features editor of Australian Grazia magazine, described it as a "travesty", but admitted that bizarre costumes were part of the Miss Universe tradition.

"She's bang on trend with the shrug and boots shearling is very hot right now but the skirt looks like it was made for a flamenco dancer from discount fabric bin scraps," Maclean said.

Miss Campbell, who faces having to parade on stage wearing the outfit in front of thousands of viewers has defended the look, which was created by the Sydney designer, Natasha Dwyer, saying she was proud to wear it.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: australia; fashionvictim; missworld
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What do designers know she looks great.

I like the boots.


1 posted on 08/01/2010 2:09:25 AM PDT by Cardhu
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To: Cardhu

When you look like that, you can wear whatever you want. Personally, I think the outfit is really stupid.


2 posted on 08/01/2010 2:15:02 AM PDT by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: SmithL; NormsRevenge; nickcarraway; Cardhu

Tenderloin Chic.

3 posted on 08/01/2010 2:19:28 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: martin_fierro

My eyes !!!!!!!!


4 posted on 08/01/2010 2:20:49 AM PDT by flaglady47 (To bastardize Samuel Johnson, tyranny is the last refuge of scoundrels)
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To: Cardhu

She should lose the dress.


5 posted on 08/01/2010 2:21:49 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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To: martin_fierro
Kinda David Crockett meets The Preditor’ish. But I like the filling...
6 posted on 08/01/2010 2:25:35 AM PDT by BigCinBigD (Northern flags in South winds flutter...)
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To: Cardhu
"Lambs Wool?"

Oh my!

PETA ain't gonna' like that at all! lol

7 posted on 08/01/2010 2:29:23 AM PDT by Conservative Vermont Vet ((One of ONLY 37 Conservatives in the People's Republic of Vermont. Socialists and Progressives All))
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To: Cardhu; Slings and Arrows; martin_fierro; aculeus; null and void; Tax-chick; maggief; GOP_Lady
but the skirt looks like it was made for a flamenco dancer from discount fabric bin scraps

An escapee from Michelle's closet made its way down under ping.

8 posted on 08/01/2010 2:32:21 AM PDT by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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To: Cardhu
I like the boots.

I like the boobs.

9 posted on 08/01/2010 2:39:44 AM PDT by rickmichaels (Allah AkBarack!!!)
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To: Cardhu

She looks like a mad Viking Princess. And I approve.


10 posted on 08/01/2010 2:44:18 AM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: rickmichaels

I was being coy - boo*s


11 posted on 08/01/2010 2:45:50 AM PDT by Cardhu
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To: Cardhu

I think she needs a broadsword to complete the look.

Not guilty, btw.


12 posted on 08/01/2010 2:46:53 AM PDT by DemforBush (Serpentine, Shel! SERPENTINE!)
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To: Cardhu

She’s going to hate that photo when she has teenagers.


13 posted on 08/01/2010 2:50:44 AM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: martin_fierro

It looks like Xena, Warrior Princess’s prom dress.


14 posted on 08/01/2010 2:55:10 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Cardhu

golly... pretty lady but weird outfit. Did Michelle the Belle help her put it together?


15 posted on 08/01/2010 2:55:38 AM PDT by DollyCali (Don't tell God how big your storm is...Tell the storm how big your God is!)
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To: Cardhu
It looks better than the outfit our First Lady wore on coronation night.
16 posted on 08/01/2010 2:56:09 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: Cardhu
The Aussie looks fine to me - especially compared to some others out there push the fashion limits...


17 posted on 08/01/2010 3:16:02 AM PDT by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience.)
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To: Cardhu

She looks like she’s wearing a reindeer thats on fire !


18 posted on 08/01/2010 3:18:49 AM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK (Any man may make a mistake ; none but a fool will persist in it . { Latin proverb })
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To: Dixie Yooper
It looks better than the outfit our First Lady wore on coronation night.


19 posted on 08/01/2010 3:19:46 AM PDT by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience.)
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To: Cardhu

LOL, it is brilliantly Australian. Good for her. She looks like Mad Max’s sister.


20 posted on 08/01/2010 3:37:29 AM PDT by agere_contra (...what if we won't eat the dog food?)
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