Sometimes things are so crazy that they stop being crazy and swing all the way around to being SPECTACULAR. Like the outfit on (the extremely pretty) Miss Poland, Marzena Cieslik, here pictured at the Grand Prix Ball in Melbourne. I do not know why Miss Poland is kicking it in Australia, but I guess that it probably has something to do with the weather. Anyway, this dress takes Pageant Fashion and kicks it up to the proverbial 11:
Tulle! Sequins! Illusion netting! Contrasting colored boobs! AWESOME. This is so over the top that I must embrace it. It reminds me of one of my favorite scandals from my past: when I was in high school, we had a Latin teacher who was sort of quirky and interesting, but in a very... sort of scholastic-seeming way. Well, I guess she had some kind of crisis, because she left the school under a cloud of mystery, but not before donating a huge box of clothing to the school's drama department, which I was involved in (I know, big surprise, right?). In the box were several elaborate beaded, ruffled, neon gowns, all of which were cut to the navel. We later learned that Lady Latin had been a nationally ranked ballroom dancer until she had been BANNED FOR LIFE from the National Ballroom Dancing Association -- or whatever the national ballroom dancing association is called -- for behavior not befitting a ballroom dancer. The rumor, which was naturally immediately accepted as truth, was that she had been caught in a particularly shocking and perverse orgy, corrupting her fellow dancers, probably so as to throw them off their dance-game, but my guess from the adult perspective is that maybe none of this actually happened and she just decided she was tired of nude t-strap sandals and high school girls and quit ballroom dancing and teaching, in that order, and ran off to somewhere more interesting to do something else. But I'm still pretty sure that Miss Poland's night is going to tragically end in her being banned from Miss Universe for doing something inappropriate that this ballroom-dance-inspired gown forced her to do.
