Look, can we just begin this conversation by agreeing that neither
fashion nor sport are issues of enormous significance. Even the
Olympics. Even the Australian team’s uniform for the opening ceremony. Agreed? Ok.
I
can’t remember anyone ever saying a good word about any Australian team
Olympic uniform and the critics were predictible in slamming Friday
night’s effort by our team in Beijing.
Even my mother was complaining about it.
I thought it was great. Fun, casual, sporty. Young. Not green and gold. Thank God.
Commentary
in the weekend papers pointed to the ‘chic and stylish’ other countries
like Italy and America and showed a whole lot of other team uniforms (I
was sooo asleep by the time everyone marched live on Friday night) but quite frankly, I don’t see that a Ralph Lauren cream blazer and some navy slacks is anything
to aspire to.
For once, our team didn’t look like bank tellers or flight attendants. Silver and blue and sparkles?
Refreshing. Woo hoo.
UPDATE:
Here are the Americans and the Japanese:
Here are the Canadians
Top Comments
i hate it. looks like someone washed it and hang it upside down!!!!!!!!!
and the colour ran out.
grace!
I think green and gold is soooooooooooo ugly and there are only so many things you can do to try and make it look better.
I just had a thought, why haven't we added red, yellow and black to acknowledge our Indigenous Australians in our Australian uniforms, this year would have been a great time to do it, given the apology and all?