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WSJ’s Noonan has the worst idea of what an American Olympics uniform should look like

Jul. 20, 2012 9:41am Eddie Scarry

In today’s Wall Street Journal conservative columnist Peggy Noonan weighs in on the controversial American Olympics uniforms:

They don’t really look all that American. Have you seen them? Do they say “America” to you? …

Americans wear baseball caps, trucker hats, cowboy hats, watch caps, Stetsons, golf caps, even Panama hats and fedoras. They wear jeans and suits and khakis and shorts and workout clothes. The Americans in the now-famous uniform picture look like something out of a Vogue spread where the models arrayed on the yacht look like perfect representatives of the new global elite. …

The failure of the uniforms is that they don’t communicate: “Here comes America.”

They communicate: “Chic global Martians coming your way.”

Is that what we want our Olympians wearing next week when the games begin? A trucker hat? Jeans? Workout clothes? Should we fit them into a pair of Crocs, too? Do Crocs say “Here comes America”? No, in fact they say, “You really don’t want to talk to me because I’m wearing Crocs.”

The only problem with the uniforms, designed by Ralph Lauren, is that they’re made in China. Everyone recognizes the obvious stupidity there. Other than that, the uniforms are sharp. The colors of the American flag are there. They look official. They’re clean. Let’s move on.

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The0bserver
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 9:48pm
“Other than that,” Ah, no. I don’t care for the Che Guevara berets either.

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yohannbiimu
Posted on July 20, 2012 at 12:17pm
By the way, the colors are the same as FRANCE’S too, and the style fits. These outfits are foreign all-around, and they scream to the world that we’re joining the losers. We aren’t the winners anymore, because we’re rejecting everything that made us winners.

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yohannbiimu
Posted on July 20, 2012 at 12:01pm
Peggy Noonan is pretty much spot on with her evaluation of the style here. It’s foreign, like our politics have become. These uniforms tell the world “we aren’t America anymore.”

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ImChiquita
Posted on July 20, 2012 at 11:42am
You have a problem with baseball caps?

Are you KIDDING me?!

Americans INVENTED the baseball cap! Even if it’s not for baseball, people wear baseball caps.

Do I agree that this year’s summer olympic uniform is one of the ugliest in history. I do. We look like the front line of brown-shirt thugs soon coming our way.

But to diss the all-American baseball cap is just as revolting.

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jds7171
Posted on July 20, 2012 at 10:06am
I totally disagree. The problem with the uniforms is they make us look more frenchy. Which is a polite way of saying looking like a bunch of starts with a p and ends with a s, p******s.

Who cares if they are made in china. We believe in the free market. If they were able to get something better built and cheaper there than here, good for them. The problem is they went with Ralph Lauren. That was the first of their mistakes.

You are one of the hypocritical conservatives that give conservatives bad names. It seems you don’t want to live with liberal regulations and laws, but you want to have them live with yours?

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