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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…

Left to right, Adam Gibson, Naomi Flood, Murray Stewart, Libby Trickett, Kynan Maley, Sarah Tait and Lauren Jackson of the Australian Olympic team pose during the official unveiling of the opening ceremony uniform at Quay restaurant in Sydney on May 3.

The Adidas designed French team's opening ceremony outfits.

Athletes model Dunlop Volleys during the official unveiling of the Australian Olympic Games opening ceremony uniform.

Azerbaijan's Olympic opening ceremony outfits.

New Zealand will be wearing these outfits by Rodd & Gunn for the opening ceremony.

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt poses with his running spikes and official team uniform outside the British Museum in London on June 1.

The outfits chosen for the Dutch Olympic team.

Giorgio Armani with Italy's Olympic team, wearing the outfits he designed.

The team from Belize will be wearing blue and white suits.

This product image released by Ralph Lauren shows US Olympic athletes, from left, swimmer Ryan Lochte, decathlete Bryan Clay, rower Giuseppe Lanzone and footballer Heather Mitts in their opening ceremony uniforms.

Spain's Saul Craviotto tweeted this picture of himself in the outfit chosen for his team.

What do you think of the new Commonwealth Games uniforms?

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