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Jenny Marlowe checks her reflection as seamstress Masako Lujan pins her cocktail dress for a slimmer fit. Marlowe, the current Miss New Mexico, will compete Saturday in the Miss America Pageant, which is striving this year to shed its fusty image and take on a more modern sensibility. "I'm ultra-positive," Marlowe says. "If you don't believe you're going to be Miss America, then you won't be."