Chotiros Suriyawong
BANGKOK, Feb. 17 (UPI) --The Thai actress known as "Amy" has been ordered to perform community service for wearing a dress deemed too revealing at an awards ceremony. Thai actress Chotiros Suriyawong poses for a photograph in Nakhon Ratchasima, 260 km northeast of Bangkok, February 12, 2007.
Chotiros Suriyawong, 22, has also been axed from her latest movie project amid the uproar over her couture at Thailand's version of the Academy Awards.
The Independent described the daring frock as one based on "Elizabeth Hurley's well-known safety-pin number." The Versace number Hurley wore to a premier in 1994 featured a neckline that didn't so much plunge as free fall.
The newspaper said Amy was caught up in a "morality drive" launched by the military government that seized power in Thailand last fall. See high Quality pic
Chotiros Suriyawong poses for a photograph in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, February 12, 2007. Suriyawong has become infamous overnight after wearing a revealing black dress to Thailand’s version of the Oscars.
Chotiros, a 22-year-old liberal arts major at Thammasat University, one of the country’s most respected academic institutions, wore it at the Feb. 9 Golden Swan awards ceremony, Thailand’s equivalent of the Oscars.
The dress is said to have been inspired by Elizabeth Hurley’s infamous Versace safety-pin dress, which grabbed the spotlight for the British beauty when she wore it to a London film premiere in 1994.
For Chotiros, a relative unknown with mainly small roles in low-budget films, the little black dress brought unwelcome attention.
She was reprimanded by her production company and ordered by her university to do community service and make a public apology for her attire.
The Culture Ministry also weighed in, calling Chotiros’ choice of dress “very inappropriate” and the wrong message for a public role model to send to young Thais.
University officials summoned Chotiros on Thursday to mete out disciplinary action, but determined that suspension or dismissal was too severe.
Instead they ordered her to perform 15 days of community service by reading to the blind.... 
“Since she repented and acknowledged her wrongdoing, we will have to give her a chance,” Thammasat’s vice rector, Parinya Thewanarumitkul, said.
Chotiros’ film production company has edited out her role in one of its upcoming movies.
“I don’t want my actresses to dress that way,” Somsak Techaratanaprasert, president of the Sahamongkol film production house, was quoted as saying by the Thai-language Khao Sod newspaper. “We are not a porn production house, and it goes against Thai culture.”
A teary-eyed Chotiros held a press conference with university deans earlier this week to explain herself.
“I feel very guilty about what happened. I want to apologize,” said Chotiros, in a white button-down shirt and cardigan, her hair pulled back demurely into a loose bun. “I didn’t know it was going to be such a big deal.”
Compare her dress to Liz Hurley. Chotiros dress is more revealing.
