Reported about 1 year ago
Snopes fact-check confirms that Miss Thailand wore a dress made of soda can tabs at the Miss Universe preliminary competition in January 2023. Although Anna Sueangam-iam did not explicitly state that the dress was a tribute to her parents who worked as garbage collectors, she mentioned in an Instagram post that it was inspired by her childhood surroundings and later added that she grew up with garbage-collector parents. The claim has been rated as 'Mostly True.'
Source: YAHOO