From the department of, “What the hell were they thinking?” comes this intriguing story about how the people who run the Miss Mexico organization recently had to re-designed a dress they had made for Rosa Maria Ojeda, their 2007 Miss Mexico, to wear in the upcoming Miss Universe pageant, to be held in Mexico City in May So what’s wrong with her dress? According to this, it’s a “floor-length dress, belted by bullets and accented by sketches of hangings during Mexico’s Roman Catholic uprising in the 1920s.” Seriously, what the frak were they thinking?

Here’s that bullet-strewn dress:

And here are other pictures of Miss Mexico Rosa Maria Ojeda (and yes, I took care to include some pictures of her in a bikini):

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