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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUS Olympis outfits last night vaguely militaristic.
Creeped me out a bit.
lynne
(3,118 posts)- I didn't see the vaguely militaristic aspect. All I saw was the seriously ugly.
GreenPartyVoter
(72,377 posts)roguevalley
(40,656 posts)GreenPartyVoter
(72,377 posts)reformist2
(9,841 posts)Shouldn't they have some say in the uniforms?
RedCappedBandit
(5,514 posts)Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)eShirl
(18,466 posts)Sequins everywhere!
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)eShirl
(18,466 posts)something like that
SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)Who on earth chose that?
TheKentuckian
(24,949 posts)I think it was mostly the berets but I guess the suits had the look of some alternate reality's naval dress uniforms to some degree too.
The Brits "hippie" vibe event made it stand out more probably. We looked more "in uniform" (military or not) than many countries.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)Without them, it would have been fine.
former9thward
(31,805 posts)dballance
(5,756 posts)If you're in the special forces.
Raine
(30,540 posts)berets? I thought they look preppy, I kind of liked them except for their being made in China.
DURHAM D
(32,596 posts)MrsBrady
(4,187 posts)But I think they are Marines.
Maybe somebody else can pop in and help us out.
DURHAM D
(32,596 posts)elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)sarisataka
(18,220 posts)make me weep
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)omg
PavePusher
(15,374 posts)bhikkhu
(10,708 posts)Same as the middle and far left in this pic of the three marine full dress uniforms.
ed. to correct term
Raine
(30,540 posts)many things you can do with clothes when dressing people alike who have different body types. At least they weren't carrying rifles.
TheMadMonk
(6,187 posts)WTF is today's military coming to.
gopiscrap
(23,674 posts)why the Olympics and most sport is just crap! The thing about everyone should play sports is mostly to get you to be a team conformist. That way the you're more pliable for the military or the right wing propaganda machine!!!
PavePusher
(15,374 posts)Thanks!
OneTenthofOnePercent
(6,268 posts)Many of the original games are derived to test military/combat skill.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)That would have changed the vibe from "Special Forces" to "bebop".
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)n/t.
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)Much more so than any other sport including target shooting.
JI7
(89,182 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)Oceania has always been at war with Hugo Boss, er, Ralph Lauren...
GreenPartyVoter
(72,377 posts)our nation, not the designer.
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)xmas74
(29,658 posts)I'd be just fine with the uniforms. They're not awful-just really preppy. I thought I'd see collars popping everywhere.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)RL yacht-type gold embroidered logo such as you'd see on a yacht captain's jacket, sailor pants, red white & blue theme colors, sailor hats and caps.
He does do some plaids and equestrian looks for fall/winter. But his summer clothes are nautical. As were the Olympic outfits.
I love Ralph Lauren. Quality clothes, good fit. And there are great sales. I got a couple of knockout Lauren tops at a resale shop near my house (the shop is near an exclusive neighborhood, so carries some high end clothes).
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)he lost me
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)I try to stick to the items w/o the logo.
Paulie
(8,462 posts)Horses like the water.
NashvilleLefty
(811 posts)I didn't see militaristic outfits - what I saw was prominent "upper class" top hats and suits that were "pulling the strings" and pretended to be doing the work that the working class was actually doing. I saw a few British Admirals, but they were a very small part.
Maybe that's only what I "wanted" to see, but it was much more frightening and telling than "militaristic" outfits.