Australia unveiled its 2016 Olympic uniform today, and nobody quite knows how to respond to it.
How can we put this? It looks like a private school uniform. It looks like a ‘my daddy owns two yachts’ uniform. It looks like the outfit you’d wear to the world’s worst croquet club. It looks like an outtake from the costume department for the 1993 Melbourne Cup telemovie re-enactment.
Frankly, the uniform has some problems.
The green blazers with greener trim are one thing, but the shoes… the shoes…
WHAT
ARE
THOOOOOOSE
Twitter obviously arced up very quickly about this questionable uniform situation, in trademark form.
are all the australian olympic athletes off to boarding school in an enid blyton book then
— Bec Shaw (@Brocklesnitch) March 29, 2016
using moire effect Australia’s olympic uniform will confuse & disorientate our opponents, like the mighty cuttlefish pic.twitter.com/V5OxJxT1Eu
— Nick Evershed (@NickEvershed) March 29, 2016
If you stare at the Australian Olympic uniform and de-focus your eyes just right, you can see a dinosaur designing a new uniform.
— Adam Liaw (@adamliaw) March 29, 2016
There are 3 certainties in life:
1: death
2: taxes
3: people sledging the Australian Olympic uniform after it’s unveiled— Andrew Brown (@AndrewBrownFCN) March 29, 2016
Once again, the sartorial elegance of our national athletes is besmirched by the cruel and unthinking hordes online.
But seriously: what’s going on here? Why have they taken the Geelong Grammar uniform and used it to represent Australia? So many questions… so little time.
Source: Twitter.
Image: Getty Images / Matt King.
