{"id":1169021,"date":"2026-08-25T19:10:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T19:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1169021\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T19:10:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T19:10:22","slug":"miss-usa-2026-wildest-outfits-from-the-state-costume-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1169021\/","title":{"rendered":"Miss USA 2026: Wildest Outfits From the State Costume Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Montana&#8217;s state flower, the bitterroot, only blooms for a short time, bringing a flash of color to the state each spring.<\/p>\n<p>Lisbeth Fern\u00e1ndez wanted to capture the fleeting beauty with her costume, designed by Kirsten Regalado. Swaths of fabric flowed down the arms of her sparkly orange dress, and she carried a staff with a depiction of a flower on it. Her large backpiece was made to look like a bitterroot in bloom, with feathers in pink, purple, and orange forming the flower&#8217;s shape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montana&#8217;s state flower, the bitterroot, only blooms for a short time, bringing a flash of color to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1169022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5311],"tags":[317204,317203,6454,317202,277900,12182,170660,1327,304964,131972,2765,317200,49,978,659,6495,317201,3118],"class_list":["post-1169021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-backpiece","tag-contestant","tag-drama","tag-dramatic-costume","tag-feather","tag-final","tag-miss-usa","tag-monday","tag-sheer-bodysuit","tag-showtime","tag-stage","tag-state-costume-contest","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-week","tag-wild-state-costume","tag-year"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117157732450233044","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1169022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}