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Sexy spaceships, vibrant peacocks and ornate temples: The outrageous costumes at the Miss International Beauty Pageant as Miss Venezuela is crowned the winner.
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In its 55th year, the Miss International beauty pageant was held today in Tokyo. Representatives from 70 countries and regions took part. A highlight of the pageant was the national costume stage, where the beauties were asked to wear an outfit inspired by their home country. The blonde bombshell representing the USA wore a truly out-of-this-world costume inspired by the country's space programme NASA
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Lindsay Becker teamed a skintight white and silver catsuit adorned with a NASA badge with knee-high white PVC boots and an astronaut helmet. She also wore a cardboard spaceship as a backpack, complete with firing jets, a sparkly American flag and a moon, which created an ethereal halo above Lindsay's head
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Miss Paraguay Monica Mariani Pascualoto displays her national costume during the Miss International beauty pageant in Tokyo on November 5 2015. Representatives from 70 countries and regions took part in the beauty pageant
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Miss Honduras Jennifer Valle displays her national costume during the Miss International beauty pageant in Tokyo. She opted for peacock feathers for her green and orange outfit, despite the national bird of Honduras being the colourful scarlet macaw
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Miss India Supriya Aiman wore a heavy-looking pagoda-inspired outfit based on the Vishwa Shanti Stupa in Delhi. Her outfit also featured peacocks, India's national bird, although this time they had pink spiky feathers like a lotus flower. The gold tear-drop shapes were decorated with cut-out hearts and lead up to the main dome, which was decorated with a Buddha statue. Supriya also wore an intricate multi-layered gold dress with a water-lily and gold chain embroidered waist belt, a heavy gold collar necklace and embroidered headdress
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Another intricate costume came from Miss Indonesia, Chintya Fabiola. Inspired by the traditional dress worn by folk dancers, Chintya made a few moves herself, using her embellished staff as a prop. Her tall gold headdress was complemented by two gold tassled 'wings', a collar, a belt, cuffs and shin-high platform boots
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Miss Malaysia was all about the textiles, wearing a heavily embroidered multi-coloured dress lined with gold. The aptly named Immaculate Lojuki dangled with coloured beads as she held out the wings to her skirt, the width balanced by samurai-eque shoulder pads and a flamboyant headdress with feathers and black and white flowers with sparkly pollen
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Miss Bolivia reflected her country's flag looking radiant in red, green and yellow. Alejandra Panozo Muguertegui's dress harped back to the style of Bolivia's folk costume, but was a little bit on the shorter side so she could show off her perfect pins and sparkly knee-high boots. Her collar was adorned with kantuta flowers, the national flower of Bolivia, and she held a model of an exotic-looking bird with red, green and yellow tail feathers
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Miss Argentina Helena Zuiani went all out with the bird look, giving herself wings made of orange, brown and grey and white striped feathers, and an ostrich-like plume skirt. Helena's look was completed with a jewelled bodice and crown.
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Miss Thailand wore the traditional dress of a fingernail dancer, which you would recognise if you have ever been to Thailand, or indeed a fancy Thai restaurant. Of course Sasi Sintawee wore a particularly intricate one, with a temple-inspired headdress which is so detailed and tall it wouldn't look out of place in a Thai miniature village. The gold continued around the collar, cuffs and waist, with her dress itself made in a sumptuous red silk with Oriental skirt folds and fabric design
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In its 55th year, the Miss International beauty pageant was held today in Tokyo. Representatives from 70 countries and regions took part. A highlight of the pageant was the national costume stage, where the beauties were asked to wear an outfit inspired by their home country. The blonde bombshell representing the USA wore a truly out-of-this-world costume inspired by the country's space programme NASA
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Lindsay Becker teamed a skintight white and silver catsuit adorned with a NASA badge with knee-high white PVC boots and an astronaut helmet. She also wore a cardboard spaceship as a backpack, complete with firing jets, a sparkly American flag and a moon, which created an ethereal halo above Lindsay's head
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Miss Paraguay Monica Mariani Pascualoto displays her national costume during the Miss International beauty pageant in Tokyo on November 5 2015. Representatives from 70 countries and regions took part in the beauty pageant
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Miss Honduras Jennifer Valle displays her national costume during the Miss International beauty pageant in Tokyo. She opted for peacock feathers for her green and orange outfit, despite the national bird of Honduras being the colourful scarlet macaw
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Miss India Supriya Aiman wore a heavy-looking pagoda-inspired outfit based on the Vishwa Shanti Stupa in Delhi. Her outfit also featured peacocks, India's national bird, although this time they had pink spiky feathers like a lotus flower. The gold tear-drop shapes were decorated with cut-out hearts and lead up to the main dome, which was decorated with a Buddha statue. Supriya also wore an intricate multi-layered gold dress with a water-lily and gold chain embroidered waist belt, a heavy gold collar necklace and embroidered headdress
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Another intricate costume came from Miss Indonesia, Chintya Fabiola. Inspired by the traditional dress worn by folk dancers, Chintya made a few moves herself, using her embellished staff as a prop. Her tall gold headdress was complemented by two gold tassled 'wings', a collar, a belt, cuffs and shin-high platform boots
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Miss Malaysia was all about the textiles, wearing a heavily embroidered multi-coloured dress lined with gold. The aptly named Immaculate Lojuki dangled with coloured beads as she held out the wings to her skirt, the width balanced by samurai-eque shoulder pads and a flamboyant headdress with feathers and black and white flowers with sparkly pollen
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Miss Bolivia reflected her country's flag looking radiant in red, green and yellow. Alejandra Panozo Muguertegui's dress harped back to the style of Bolivia's folk costume, but was a little bit on the shorter side so she could show off her perfect pins and sparkly knee-high boots. Her collar was adorned with kantuta flowers, the national flower of Bolivia, and she held a model of an exotic-looking bird with red, green and yellow tail feathers
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Miss Argentina Helena Zuiani went all out with the bird look, giving herself wings made of orange, brown and grey and white striped feathers, and an ostrich-like plume skirt. Helena's look was completed with a jewelled bodice and crown.
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Miss Thailand wore the traditional dress of a fingernail dancer, which you would recognise if you have ever been to Thailand, or indeed a fancy Thai restaurant. Of course Sasi Sintawee wore a particularly intricate one, with a temple-inspired headdress which is so detailed and tall it wouldn't look out of place in a Thai miniature village. The gold continued around the collar, cuffs and waist, with her dress itself made in a sumptuous red silk with Oriental skirt folds and fabric design
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