# What the... Miss Universe "National Costumes" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 24, 2015, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-miss-universe-national-costumes/710730 "2015-01-24T03:25:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-miss-universe-national-costumes/710730/61 "2015-01-27T04:24:16Z")
Hey! How come Guam and Puerto Rico get their own entries? Last I heard we still owned them. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-miss-universe-national-costumes/710730/62 "2015-01-27T05:20:50Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > What \*the Hell \*is the [Czech Republic’s gal’s outfit](http://i.imgur.com/IPYBFYI.jpg) supposed to represent… I think she’s a perogie. Can anybody tell me where Miss Belgium’s arms are? ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-miss-universe-national-costumes/710730/63 "2015-01-27T15:37:38Z")
> [@Manduck](#): > > I think she’s a perogie. She looks more like the back seat of our car when I was a kid. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-miss-universe-national-costumes/710730/64 "2015-01-27T15:47:08Z")
I think the descriptor “vajazzled” should put T-Lo in the running for a Nobel Prize - Literature. 😃 :o 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-miss-universe-national-costumes/710730/65 "2015-01-27T16:10:18Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > I think the descriptor “vajazzled” should put T-Lo in the running for a Nobel Prize - Literature. Nothing says “class” like rhinestone-berries glued to an ass. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-miss-universe-national-costumes/710730/66 "2015-01-27T16:22:35Z")
Ms. France, I’m waiting for her to say [“The last mosquito that bit me had to check into the Betty Ford clinic.”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAfmM06pVUw) Ireland: The designer must have been going for the truly Celtic look. They decided to bury it in a bog for a week for authenticity. Poor Ms. Bolivia is having a Tonya Harding moment. (The unlaced skate, that is, not the club.) Nigeria. Ouch, ouch, ouch! ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-miss-universe-national-costumes/710730/67 "2015-01-27T17:56:14Z")
> [@Sodalite](#): > > Sorry, posting half asleep. I did go back and look at that picture again. What kind of hose are those? When I enlarge the picture I can see her toes and the light reflecting off of the nails. I don’t see where the hose would end. I’m honestly wondering. The “bunchy toes” thing has really put me off wearing panty hose in the past. It would be nice to find some that leave my feet looking and feeling more normal. I’m not sure what do you mean by “bunchy toes”, but right now none of my translucid hose has opaque toes or a seam at the end; one of them marks the heel but it’s a matter of the way the tube is shaped, again no opaque area. Some of my mother’s hose has a seam; if she wears those with open-toed sandals, she pulls it a bit further out and folds the seam under her toes - tadaaaa, no seam! And as for light reflecting off the nails, well, yeah, yeah, it does. It won’t do that with unpedicured feet, but a decent layer of gloss (it doesn’t even need to be polish) will shine through hose. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-miss-universe-national-costumes/710730/68 "2015-01-28T02:45:45Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > Nigeria. Ouch, ouch, ouch! Well, at least there’s a bit of history to her costume, even if there isn’t a bit of attractiveness to it. She was brave. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-miss-universe-national-costumes/710730/69 "2015-01-28T17:48:51Z")
They still HAVE a Miss Universe contest? Huh… just looked at Wikipedia, and apparently they do. But I don’t recognize the names of any of the contestants from the last 30 years, so one wonders… why enter? It’s not as if winning gives a girl any kind of boost in her show biz career. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-miss-universe-national-costumes/710730/70 "2015-01-28T20:34:24Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > They still HAVE a Miss Universe contest? > > Huh… just looked at Wikipedia, and apparently they do. But I don’t recognize the names of any of the contestants from the last 30 years, so one wonders… why enter? It’s not as if winning gives a girl any kind of boost in her show biz career. Maybe they get to keep the costumes.😛 ---
**Author:** ![Marion\_Wormer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Marion\_Wormer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marion_Wormer)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2015, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-miss-universe-national-costumes/710730/71 "2015-01-29T01:35:46Z")
I liked Kenya’s dress and Turks and Caicos. Was Spain the BVM or Queen Isabella? ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2015, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-miss-universe-national-costumes/710730/72 "2015-01-29T01:44:35Z")
**astorian** : In the countries that for some reason continue to take this seriously (and this island, much to my aggravation, insists on being one) it still is a good stepping stone if she knows how to play it. > [@Marion\_Wormer](#): > > Was Spain the BVM or Queen Isabella? Isabella. It was the Dominican Republic that came as Our Lady of Altagracia (and yes, people complained; someone always complains). ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2015, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-miss-universe-national-costumes/710730/73 "2015-01-29T06:49:13Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > I am sooo disappointed by this year’s American costume. [Look](http://www.buzzfeed.com/ellievhall/miss-usa-wore-a-transformers-costume-in-the-miss-universe-pa#.cqxDB136D) what they did last year. It was a freaking gigantic transformer. That’s no Transformer. That’s a Borg! Miss Ireland better stay off the NY Subway, because she is going to take up way more than one seat in that thing. I looked through the pictures from last year - the theme seemed to be giant peacock. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-miss-universe-national-costumes/710730/74 "2015-01-30T21:50:23Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > **astorian** : In the countries that for some reason continue to take this seriously (and this island, much to my aggravation, insists on being one) it still is a good stepping stone if she knows how to play it. Well, if being Miss Universe helps some girl get a show biz career in Venezuela, good for her. Here in the US, Vanessa WiIlliams is probably the last Miss America that most people could name! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-miss-universe-national-costumes/710730.md?page=3)