The Best and The Most Brash of the Miss Universe Pageant Country Costumes
By Ani Bundel
The Best
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Belize is their national bird, the scarlet macaw.
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Bahamas is wearing their coat of arms in balloon form.
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Barbados is the island’s most popular tourist attraction–a cave.
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The British Virgin Islands, representing the “sun, sea and sand”. Gotta hand it to her, it’s ambitious.
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Nicaragua in “damn that looks hot (to wear).”
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Good morning Vietnam!
Myanmar won for the most elaborate in my book–she was her own puppet show.
Indonesia is a bird from Hindu mythology.
Chile, as a pair of sea dragons.
The Dominican Republic, inspired by a national artist.
Ecuador, as a hummingbird.
Malaysia, in Skyscrapers.
Sweden as Pippi Longstocking, carrying a horse.