Japan’s candidate for the 2009 Miss Universe pageant will make adjustments to her costume after the black kimono outfit she had chosen was criticized as too revealing. “Considering the opinions we got from many supporters and other people concerned, we decided to make the hemline of the costume longer,” IBG Japan, which operates the local Miss Universe contest, said on a posting yesterday on its Web site. Emiri Miyasaka, a 25-year-old from Tokyo, who won Japan’s preliminary contest in May, disclosed her official costume, created by French designer Ines Ligron and Japan’s Yoshiyuki Ogata, on July 22. The pageant organizer and designers received complaints from more than 2,000 people, including one who said the kimono looked like “something a prostitute might wear,” according to a report today in the Sankei newspaper. Miss Universe will be chosen in Bahamas on August 23. Credit: Bloomberg
they are right to criticize. kimono is something very traditional and important to japanese . the way she wear it make her looks like a prostitute or an idol. she is supposed to be representing to whole country . i wouldnt like somebody doing surch revealing picture to represent me. she is a shame for japan .any other japanese miss would have been better than her
Agreed!! This is a WORLD/UNIVERSE contest. not some trashy/model Geisha whoring wannabe thingy. Kimono represent Japanese tradition. A symbol and a pride of Japan. and these crazy outfit are just representing the whole perverted adultry sniffing underwear anime level. I want a clean images. We have enuff of those people who show their bleep..bleep..in the news. no extra needed! thank you very much!
