The 2016 Australian Olympic team outfit unveiled at Icebergs on Bondi Beach Photo copyright Getty Images
Bondi Beach was maybe a fitting choice as a backdrop for today's revealing of the design of the 2016 Australian Olympic team outfits. Designed by Sportscraft and worn by 11 top athletes, the outfits will be the official apparel for the 450 athletes heading to Rio in August
The athletes will enter the Opening Ceremony wearing sharply tailored green seersucker cotton blazers, finished with a gold embroidered coat of arms badge and burnished gold Australian Olympic coat of arms buttons. Sportscraft, designer of the Australian Olympic team outfit for the seventh time, have once again created a special ode to our past gold medallists by creating a unique lining inside the jacket with each athlete’s name. Other key design details include the ladies silk scarf printed with the Southern Cross, beautiful 100% extra fine Australian Merino wool knits, and a green and gold knitted men’s tie.
The yellow of the ‘green and gold’ is certainly far more muted than that of the startling yellow jackets worn by the Australian eventing team heading to the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Can’t remember who they were? Find out here
