Miss Thailand and her can ring dress in tribute to her garbage collector parents

We had promised ourselves not to talk about beauty pageants again, but boy, how difficult has

23 years old, the representative of Thailand in the 71st edition of the pageant, made it for us.

In the preliminary competition, held on January 11 at the New Orleans Morial Convention Center, she took the stage in a long, tight dress with a huge front opening, made with metal pieces that turned out to be rings from beverage cans.

The thing would not have had more significance

and his imitators have been making dresses with aluminum plates since the 60s, we are not going to be surprised by a version in

now) if it had not been because the contestant from Thailand revealed the raison d'être of the dress: it was a tribute to her parents, who dedicated themselves to garbage for many years, specifically her father collecting it and her mother sweeping it up.

Both worked for the Bangkok City Hall.

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To give the dress more presence, the rings were not enough, so the so-called "hidden diamond dress" by its wearer also had Swarovski crystals. The bet did not give her the scepter of the contest, but the

With such a story behind it, the

became something else, of course, among many others, a great media hook.

In her social networks, Anna Suengam-ian said that "this dress was inspired by the family environment of my childhood. Growing up with parents who were garbage collectors, my life as a child was spent among piles of waste and recyclable materials. This unique dress was made on purpose with discarded and recycled materials, to show the UNIVERSE that what many consider worthless, actually has its own value and beauty."

Far from being an exaggeration, Anna really lived her childhood in a dump, which would earn her the nickname of beauty queen of garbage.

Full of positivity, she emphasizes on her Instagram account that even from environments as dark as hers of origin, she can get away from her.

She appreciates the injection of optimism, although not all of us come out of the same box in the Miss Universe ludo, of course.

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