Monday, July 16, 2007

False braids cost Bolivian beauty queen her title

LA PAZ, Bolivia - The winner of a Bolivian beauty contest for indigenous women was stripped of her title moments after her coronation when judges noticed she was wearing false braids, organizers said Saturday.

The Miss Cholita Pacena pageant, held in the Andean city of La Paz late Friday, seeks to instill pride in indigenous women who choose to wear the traditional dress of wide skirt, bowler hat and long braided hair.

But doubts over whether the winner was a genuine Cholita Pacena—the name for Indian women from La Paz—led judges to strip her of her victor’s sash and call for a rerun, said pageant organizer Walter Gomez from La Paz’s city government.

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