Miss Universe 2012 National Costumes

This has been kind of a yearly tradition in IRC and I thought that this year, I'd bring it to the forums. I don't follow pageants, but I do follow Tom and Lorenzo (of Project Rungay fame) and every year they do a breakdown of the best and most amazing (distinct catagories) of the Miss Universe competitions National Costumes.

Part 1 (mildly NSFW due to painted boobies on sleeves YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO LOOK NOW)
Part 2
Part 3



British Virgin Islands is totally rocking the coral reef look.



Argentina will devour your soul.



China is glamorous as hell.



Gotta respect Britain for going full Glam Rock.



FUCKING MEXICO: GO BIG OR GO HOME




Post your favorites and your not so favorites and discuss!

Angola is just .... yeah. (It's the NSFW one)

Angola stealth announces its renaming of itself to Titaly.

You know she walked up with that wrapped around her and then she opened it up all slowly so it wouldn't flutter, and then gradually it came into view, a triptych of mammary panels.

Some of the commentary there is just the best.


“Come to Malaysia, or my dragon-riders will burn down your villages and a hundred years of darkness and winter will befall you all!”

Somebody has been shopping at the same sales I have.

Canada, France, Italy and Greece phoned it in... so bad.

Malaysia wore Snooki's wedding dress.

Nicaragua, Guyana and Sri Lanka are all my favorite dresses costumes I think.

Yes, Guyana's costume is pretty amazing.

Nicaragua Rules

Merry Fucking Christmas, Bitches.

This needs a "COME AT ME BRO"

I liked the tier 3 set more, but this one will do.

Curacao is going to win, or she's going to fly off with your fucking toddlers.

Part 3 is up!



“The Airbrushing-the-Side-of-a-Van industry is thriving in Brazil! As represented by this totally awesome Cheetah ralphing on my dress!”


I died.

I kind of want to be Miss Peru when I grow up.

If Blizzard adopted this as the next tier of Paladin armor, I would resub in a heartbeat!

I died.


“Lick me, bitch. I’ve got a giant fucking box of chocolates on my head.”

Quickly, Captain! To Otherworld! Merlyn has called upon the Order, for Mad Jim Jaspers threatens all of reality!

I was just thinking "wow, what raid instance did she have to farm to get all the pieces of that tier set??"

Is Venezuela known for chocolates? Because I did not know that. I thought that was Switzerland D:

Venezuela is where the chocolate comes from.

Specifically, it's thought to be one of the two places where the cacao tree is believed to originate from. :D

I had to correct myself because most of the world's chocolate comes from west African countries nowadays.

So far I think I like China the best.

And some of these outfits, like Mexico's - I don't even know how the poor women are standing upright in heels with all that extra weight and fabric / structure throwing your balance off. She's wearing more sails than a frigate in the 1700s. A mild breeze would knock her right over.

There's a place up in the Plano, Texas area that does single-source dark chocolates, including a few from different regions of Venezuela. It's amazing the difference that location makes in the flavors you get when you purify it and don't have a lot of distracting sweetness.

What the hell Netherlands.



I like that Ukraine and Bahamas went with straight up cosplay.

Denmark is like "Oh, hai - nobody told me there'd be costumes before yesterday, so mom whipped up this".

Man, these are so crazy, some are like totally normal, and then BAM! Giant hawk girl costume, that manages to be sillier looking than the actual hawk girl costume. Some of these would make great super hero outfits though.

So apparently Miss USA won, and don't worry, the daily mail has its own stalkerish profile to accompany reddit karma-bait.

HOLY SHIT THE CHILEAN MODEL IS MY EX SISTER IN LAW wow this is awkward

And that outfit is an homage to the Chilean navy uniform from the late XIX century, if I'm not mistaken. I don't really like it. Said uniform was worn during the Pacific War with Peru, and speaking of them...

Peru's outfit is probably partially based on the Incas and partially on the fact that their territory was home to the Spanish viceroyalty that governed the area. Which puzzles me, I would've expected them to go much more on the Machu Picchu side since it's the side the Peruvian people identify with most.

My favourite has to be Ecuador, though.

I mean, that is just fabulous however you look at it.

Your ex-sister in law looks like a character from Soul Calibur.

They all look like characters from Soul Calibur

Chile has some serious llamatoe going on there.

I'd play this fighting game.

Also upon reflection I'm pretty sure Miss Ireland bought her costume at a Halloween Superstore. Sexy Green Lantern, with the symbol removed and some appliques ironed on instead.

Nevermind (Didn't see Athryn's post)

Soooo...plastic surgery is allowed? For some reason I thought the gals had to be natural-ish. I have not kept up on my beauty pageant rulings.

I suppose wandering into sharp knees territory was only a matter of time.

Lawlz no, the young lady is stunning. Her knees could have Kerzain's face on them and I wouldn't care.

I was just saying it would take Chao Lu half a day reciting digits before he found an end to the irrational constant posed by portions of Miss Honduras anatomy.

"I am willing to take on this mission."

- Chao Lu

My co-worker's sister was the designer of Miss Australia! I don't think we did too badly.

Is she supposed to look like what would happen if there was a Japanese dating sim where you played a young man who ran a hotel for moe anthropomorphizations of major international landmarks who need to go on vacation from being a vacation destination and she's Shidoni-chan, the saucy Australian girl who is also the Sydney Opera House?