Miss Universe 2010 national costumes

Miss Great Britain Tara Vaitiere Hoyos poses in her national costume - a Beefeater's uniform with wet-look leggings. Because that's what we all wear in Great Britain, obviously

Rima Fakih, Miss USA 2010, wears a costume inspired by the Seal of the President of the United States as a tribute to Barack Obama. She apparently drew a basic design, and then Victoria's Secret Fashion Show designer Martin Izquierdo came up with the final creation. We haven't heard what Mr Obama thinks of the tribute

Name a famous Belgian. Kim Clijsters, you say? So that's why Miss Belgium Cilou Annys is decked out in tennis paraphernalia

Poor Miss Zambia 2010, Alice Musukwa. Not only does she have to carry a large calabash, she also has two gourds for a bra, and phallic gourds on her dress

Miss Venezuela Marelisa Gibson wears a costume covered in glittering shards in tribute to a glass monument to revolutionary icon Ernesto "Che" Guevara that was shot up and destroyed less than two weeks after it was unveiled by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's government

Miss Colombia Natalia Navarro is dressed as India Catalina, an indigenous woman who acted as interpreter and intermediary for the Spanish invaders. To many people in Colombia, she is an icon of the extermination of the Precolumbian inhabitants

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