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Article: WIOR SUITS MRS. AMERICA PAGEANT.(Brief Article)
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- October 4, 2000
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LOS ANGELES -- It's an old TV adage that the camera adds 10 pounds. Contestants in the Mrs. America pageant, taped on Sept. 1 and airing Sunday on PAX-TV, hoped to fight tele-tubby with the help of Carol Wior's Slimsuit, a swimsuit that claims to take "an inch or more off the waistline, just by slipping it on."
The misses' swimsuit designer served as celebrity judge and swimsuit supplier for the pageant, which was held at the Hilton Hawaiian Village in Honolulu. For the swimsuit competition, each of the 10 finalists wore Wior's aqua-and-black swimsuit with a V-neck that ...