173cm tall Miss Universe Malaysia 2024 in “full-length gown” disgusted by uninvited stares in KLCC

 

CUZ I’m too tall to be Malaysian?” so asked Sandra Lim Shu Hui, the beauty queen who made history for Malaysia by finishing in the Top 30 at the Miss Universe 2024 pageant, in a 24-second clip as to why so many eyeballs were glued at her as she made her way to the recent Kuala Lumpur Fashion Week (KLFW) 2026 in KLCC Park.

For context, the Malaysian fashion model, actress and bilingual host was somehow ‘cat walking’ to the 14th annual KLFW (held from Aug 3 to 9) venue in an elegant black strapless evening gown that features a plunging sweetheart neckline with subtle embellishments and a high-slit mermaid silhouette.

Interestingly, while many TikTokers were impressed with her height and poise which was further boosted by her reputation at the Miss Universe 2024 pageant, Threaders sported a more conservative inkling with some bluntly ridiculed Lim for catching the stares by being “half-naked in a mall”.

Thankfully, others softened the blow by telling her decently that eyeballs landed on her “not because you are tall but your outfit is disturbing their (that of shoppers) eyes”.

Or that her somehow “too sexy and dress is out of place”. “That’s all. Try to dress like others and not out of norm and nobody will even look at you,” quipped one commenter.

Fight back

Another female commenter offered her two sen worth that her evening gown is a tad “too revealing”. “We don’t want to see your cleavage anyway ,” she teased while one rightist netizen reminded Lim “to respect the majority for this isn’t Thailand or Bali”.

While she saw “absolutely nothing wrong to wear that (black) dress to an event”, one self-proclaimed part-time fashionista was flabbergasted as to why “you have to film people’s reaction towards you”.

“What are you trying to prove here?” she wondered.

While one commenter defended Lim given “non-Muslim can wear anything that suits her taste”, another who is presumably more old-fashion or pious cautioned that “as Malaysians, we should also respect our culture, values and diversity”.

“If we can criticise foreigners for being insensitive to local norms, Malaysians shouldn’t be exempt from the same standard,” she chided.

Probably displeased with contrarian views expressed by Threaders, Lim lashed out if “it’s normal to comment on random a young woman’s post about their private parts?”

“FYI, it was a full-length gown … one meant for a fashion event held in KLCC … it’s up to me if I wanna wear it to go shopping,” fumed the 25-year-old budding actress from Selangor.

“Understand first the event I was attending before simply commenting … This is not the space for condescending comments to attack women for what they wear. Do you talk to you daughters and sisters like that? Be human again, talk human.”

However, her reasoning received mixed responses from Threaders with one woman mocking Lim for courting trouble with her attire in the first place.

“You post it on social media for public attention. You know too well it could be good attention or bad attention,” she jibed.

“But when you get unfavourable response, you throw your tantrum. Grow up and be responsible for your own action”

Another who is surprisingly a guy defended the pageant star over the tendency of “blaming women for what they wear”.  “They could be fully clothed and men would still have misogynistic and condescending shit to say about women. Grow up and teach men not to be douchebags,” he asserted. –  Focus Malaysia