Posted on 06/21/2024 7:22:12 AM PDT by FoxInSocks
Ralph Lauren must pay for his crimes against fashion.
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You know what comes to mind when I think “American Olympic team”? Blazers. And that’s precisely what Ralph Lauren is serving with the new team uniforms: The opening ceremony’s fit is a striped oxford shirt, a navy blazer with red and white stripes, and light-wash denim jeans. A sea of this country’s finest athletes, dressed like they have private school at 3 p.m. but are subbing in for Springsteen at 9. For the closing ceremony, it gets worse, with a Ballad of Ricky Bobby–ass denim moto jacket paired with matching white jeans. Splashed across the front of this affront to our eyeballs? The letters “USA,” emblazoned in good old red, white, and blue.
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Team USA outfits are determined to look less like clothes that use elements of the flag so much as they’re flags cut into the shape of outfits. Even for such a patriotic occasion, it feels like overkill. For some reason, the only representation of American exceptionalism you all can come up with is stars and stripes and three colors that have to be shared with the French. Are the Ralph Lauren jackets worse than the godawful unitards Nike made for the track and field teams? No, but only because at least the Ralph Lauren outfits fully cover your mons pubis; the women’s cut of the unitard runs so high along the groin, you’d be able to give birth on live television without undressing.
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Red White and Blue Jeans ?
I see nothing wrong with them. The writer just does not like Ralph Lauren’s styling and is jealous of the type of people who wear Ralph Lauren clothing.
As a Canadian, it’s on the fine print of my green card that most sentences I write while on American soil must start with the disclaimer, “As a Canadian.”
The Slate writer is not even an American.
She’s probably mad that the athletes with XY chromosomes are not being required to make a political statement by being forced to wear skirts.
They look good to me. Not sure what Slate is whining about...
I basically like them. The only thing I don’t like is the Lauren logo on them. If it has to be there, I’d prefer to see it much smaller. (But maybe that’s just me. I only buy clothes with labels on the inside. I’m not going to pay money for a logo-ed item of clothing and then be an unpaid walking billboard for it.)
Slate is upset because there are no rainbow flags declaring America’s greatest and most celebrated cause and Holiday, LGBTQI Pride Month
Looks OK to me. Slate just wants the transfag colors.
Sounds like the US IS keeping it classy and the Slate writer doesn’t like that fact.
Hmm... reminds me of something I saw in the Village...
Viewership for women's track and field event sure to hit a record.
Ok, it’s RL’s Polo label. Seems to me that it’s too dominant, and shouldn’t be so big.
Besides, when most of the world thinks of a rider on a horse in the USA, they don’t think of polo; they think of the rider wearing a cowboy hat, and a lariat in view as well.
Too big a label, agreed. But the blazer looks fine otherwise. Absolutely. American, even.
That is why it the image does not display here.
Slate doesn’t care for the USA letters on the outfits.
Chances I will watch the opening ceremonies or any of the Olympics....zero
That Ralph Lauren Polo logo probably wasn’t necessary.
It’s nice that Ralph Lauren thinks that he is America, but doesn’t Congress have to ratify that or something?
LOREN must have gotten his inspiration from Captain Kangaroo.
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