Since 2015, the Miss Universe Beauty Pageant's Best National Costume Award has been won by Miss Asia, which has made netizens around the world convinced and unopposed.
Miss Indonesia temple costume
On January 25, 2015, at the 63rd Miss Universe pageant 2014 held in Miami, USA, Miss Elvira Devinamira of India wore a national costume catwalk weighing 20 kilograms based on the image of the Borobudur Temple in the 9th century in Central Java. It gives the impression of luxury in intense colours of gold, black and grey. In the end, she won the Best National Costume Award, and her results in this beauty contest were in the top 15.
Thai Miss Tricycle Costume
On December 20, 2015, at the 64th Miss Universe Pageant 2015 held in Las Vegas, Miss Thailand Anipan Chanampranawon wore a costume based on the shape of an electric tricycle commonly found on the streets of Thailand and won the Award for Best National Costume.
In the competition, she wore a sleeveless dress, with her hands on the handlebars, the Thai flag on both sides of the front windshield, and the three headlights were sparkling and unique, blinding all the spectators and judges.
Miss Myanmar pulls the thread organ costume
On January 30, 2017, at the 65th Miss Universe Pageant 2016 held in Manila, Philippines, Miss Myanmar Htet Htet Htun wore a pull-out costume and won the Best National Costume Award.
The costume is topped by a leafy tree, which connects her arm to the drawing board behind her by means of a mechanism and a hemp rope, and when she dances her arms or swings her shoulders and waist, she will pull the hemp rope, thus opening the red curtain of the drawing board behind her, revealing the contents of the drawing board, which is painted with Burmese style pictures: temples and wild animals. With her dancing posture, it is beautiful and charming, and it is amazing.
What you don't know, however, is that the costume weighs 40 kilograms and miss Myanmar is already sweating and panting after a dance lap.
A costume where Miss Japan can change into magic
On November 26, 2017, at the 66th Miss Universe Pageant 2017 held in Las Vegas, USA, Miss Japan Momoko Abe won the Best National Costume Award by wearing a costume that can be changed into another color and style with a wave of her hand.
Miss Laos Birdman costume
On December 17, 2018, at the 67th Annual Miss Universe Pageant 2018 held in Bangkok, Thailand, Miss Laos, On-anong Homsombath, won the Best National Costume Award in a golden costume inspired by the half-bird, half-woman goddess Kinnaree in Southeast Asian mythology.
Miss Laos and the two statues in front of and behind wear the same costume, its pointed hat, tail curled to the back of the head and bird's claw legs, the appearance is very attractive. Miss Laos needed to move with two statues through the lever in her hand, and was uniquely conceived, not easy to operate, and praised by everyone.
Miss Philippines tried on the national bird costume
On December 8, 2019, at the 68th Miss Universe Pageant in Atlanta, USA, Miss Philippines Gazini Ganados won the Award for Best National Costume in a costume designed and made by Cary Santiago and inspired by the Philippine national bird, the Philippine Eagle (Ape Eater).
This award also caused a shady scene.
Host Steve Harvey was suspected of making a fuss
At the time of the award, host Steve Harvey told the audience that Miss Philippines Gazini Ganados had won the award for best national costume.
However, the staff had previously asked Miss Malaysia to go backstage and put on a costume to receive the award. Harvey, the host, has also always believed that it is Miss Philippines who is standing by her side waiting to receive the award. Until Harvey read out the name, everyone was confused. Miss Malaysia took the microphone from Harvey's hand and corrected her as Malaysian, and the host did not read the name indiscriminately. However, Harvey said he was not wrong, and the teleprompter in his hand showed miss Filipino's name.
The post showed Miss Malaysia winning the award, which was removed hours later
What's going on here? It turned out that Miss Philippines actually got the most votes, and it should be that she won the award. However, the Malaysian staff in the Miss Universe organization arranged for Miss Malaysia to change clothes to receive the award, and posted a tweet about miss Malaysia's award, wanting to arrange a good scene of "Tanuki for Prince" and "Raw Rice for Mature Rice". But the computer voting program was not handled well, so the host's name was still Miss Philippines on the tweeter.
Miss Universe officially posted confirmation that Miss Philippines won the award
Afterwards, Miss Universe officially deleted the wrong tweet and re-posted that it was Miss Philippines who won the award.
Malaysians were the first to report the award
Miss Malaysia's costume
At first, Malaysians were so excited to learn that their representatives had won the award, and even the reports of the award came out, but it was later confirmed to be false, and they were furious.
Interestingly, since 2014, Miss Asia has won the Miss Universe "Best National Costume Award". In response to this result, foreign netizens expressed helplessness, but also expressed their happiness and congratulations for Miss Asia's award. Because the costumes of these ladies are really creative and convincing.
Miss Costa Rica's national costume
The national costume of Miss Ukraine
The national costume of Miss Italian
The national costume of Miss Chile
At 8 p.m. on May 13, the above four ladies will appear on stage in ethnic costumes. This evening, the 69th Miss Universe National Costume Contest will be held. More pictures of the contestants and ethnic costumes will be updated in these days.
So, this year's beauty contest, will the "Best National Costume Award" still fall on the head of Miss Asia?