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Are these the ugliest uniforms of all time? (hint: yes)

 

Brace yourselves.

The official Australian uniforms for this year’s Commonwealth Games have been revealed, you guys.

And they involve lurid green, cable-knit jumpers, white chinos and pointy-hemmed, space-age skirts.

Want to see?

Drumroll please…

The uniforms, designed and manufactured by Australian Defence Apparel, have attracted criticism by fashion commentators and, predictably, sparked much hilarity on social media.

“This is why Olympians used to perform naked,” Elle‘s deputy editor Damien Woolnough said.

“Were these uniforms designed by a graduate of the Whitehouse Institute on a scholarship?”

Yikes.

Fairfax fashion editor Georgina Safe remarked that the fact the uniforms were designed by combat wear designers “could well come in handy should our Glasgow-bound athletes need to defend themselves against heinous fashion crime allegations from other nations.”

Commentators took to twitter to express their disbelief at the designs:

While some commented that the uniforms had a distinctly, er, retro look.

Personally, we reckon those lapels are so giant, Prince must be fuming with jealousy.

The Commonwealth Games start in Glasgow, Scotland on July 23.

More uniforms, you say? Why yes, we have plenty. Click right this way for a selection of Olympics uniforms that are easier on the eye…

What do you think of the new Commonwealth Games uniforms?