French Looking Official U.S Olympic Team Uniforms Made In China

July 12, 2012 | Filed under Sports | Posted by

The Ralph Lauren designed U.S. Olympic Team uniforms don’t carry the “Made In America” label. ABC reports:

They are the pride of America — Team U.S.A. — and for the opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympics in London, they’ll be proudly wearing red, white and blue, from beret to blazer.

The classic American style — shown in an image above — was crafted by designer Ralph Lauren. But just how American is it?

When ABC News looked at the labels, it found “made in China.”

Every item in the uniforms that the U.S. athletes will be wearing at the opening ceremony in London will carry an overseas label.

Apparently this is some sort of big surprise. Anyone who has bought clothes in the last decade or so sure wouldn’t be surprised, since pretty much all clothes are made or assembled overseas. If the U.S. Olympic Committee wanted American made outfits they certainly could have demanded it, so it’s not Ralph Lauren’s fault that the made the uniforms where they make all their other clothes.

Here are bigger images of the two official Team USA outfits.

The beret is a little French for my taste, but that preppy get up sure doesn’t look like it wold go very well with a cowboy hat.

Update: Fred Bauer claims that US made equivalents would cost $500 less.

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  • jim_m

    The classic American style

    WTF? Since when is the beret a classic American style? Our athletes are going to look more like the Young Pioneers than Team USA. But then maybe that’s the point.

  • Guest

    Hypernationlism is the sign of a narrow mind.

    Who cares where the clothes were made? Certainly not me.

    • http://wizbangblog.com/author/rodney-graves/ Rodney G. Graves

      DERP!

      • 914

        hahahahahahahhahahahaha

    • Jwb10001

      Your double standards are showing again.

    • herddog505

      But they were OUTSOURCED!* And, like, that’s TOTALLY evil, right?

      ===

      (*) I think technically it’s offshored, but…

      • Guest

        I bet Romney thinks its funny when US job are offshored/outsourced too.

        Yeah, funny….

        • http://www.shockandblog.com/ Jay McHue

          DERP DERP DERP!

        • herddog505

          No, I suspect that he doesn’t especially care where work is done so long as it returns the most profit for his shareholders (the people he ultimately works for).

          I guess he also doesn’t suffer from hypernationalism.

          • Guest

            I suspect your right. I suspect Romney doesn’t give a damn about American jobs, and is only concerned with the profits he can generate for the owners of the firms he runs.

            That makes him particularly unfit for the job of President.

          • http://wizbangblog.com/author/rodney-graves/ Rodney G. Graves

            DERP! DERP! DERP! DERP!

          • herddog505

            Doing his duty for his employers??? THAT disqualifies him??? So, if he had told his employers to get bent, that he was going to “invest in America” whether it bankrupted them or not, he would be QUALIFIED???

            Look, I realize that you don’t like Romney, and that’s cool; it’s a free country. I don’t care much for him, myself (though he’s miles ahead of the alternative). But, really, you need to come up with a better line than whining that he did what he was hired to do.

        • 914

          You fucking idiot!

          DERP!!

      • Guest

        I bet Romney thinks its funny when US job are offshored/outsourced too.

        Yeah, funny….

    • http://www.shockandblog.com/ Jay McHue

      Hypergayprideism is the sign of a narrow mind.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IZ5BM5GNLA54OADSWGSXAMA7SY Jay


    The beret is a little French for my taste, but that preppy get up sure doesn’t look like it wold go very well with a cowboy hat.

    Might wanna talk to the Green Berets. Fox learned about that the hard way.

    • jim_m

      Outside the military tradition who wears berets in the US? Precious few outside of some francophile art communities. There is no way you can characterize the beret as something identifiably American.

    • weewone

      a cowboy hat goes with everything.

      • Tony L

        Especially the ten gallon hat… imagine all the athletes with their ten gallon hats and wearing boots with spurs. Howdy Partner.

        • herddog505

          If Texas was still an independent republic, I imagine that’s EXACTLY how their Olympic team would dress!

    • weewone

      a cowboy hat goes with everything.

  • herddog505

    What the fizzuck? Who designed these abominations?

    • Sky__Captain

      Probably someone with the mindset of Grumpy.

    • Sky__Captain

      Probably someone with the mindset of Grumpy.

    • http://www.shockandblog.com/ Jay McHue

      Ralph Lauren, apparently.

      • herddog505

        He should stick to polo shirts and casual wear, then.

        Jebus…

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  • jim_m

    Hey Grumpy, your slave masters disagree with you. They think that the uni’s should be burned:

    “I think the Olympic Committee should be ashamed,” Reid told
    reporters on Capitol Hill. He said they should “burn” the current
    uniforms, and would rather America’s athletes wear shirts with “USA”
    hand-painted on them. …

    “And they should be wearing uniforms made in America,” Pelosi said.

    Better check in with leftist central to get yourself back on the same page with today’s talking points. Loser.

    • http://www.rustedsky.net JLawson

      You miss a memo, you miss a lot!

  • http://www.rustedsky.net JLawson

    Regardless of where these uniforms were made – there’s nothing distinctive about these. Nothing that says ‘American, and proudly so!’

    I look at them, and think “Late ’80′s style Preppie-Wear”, vaguely European in style. (Yeah, I know about how berets are used in the military. But they’re not emblematic of the military, and they ARE associated with France so overall it’s ‘vaguely European’.) And it’s not anything NEW – this is just a reworking (and not a major one) of a style that’s been around for a long, long time.

    Take away the scarves, get that ‘Polo’ logo off the jackets, put a visible “USA” in it’s place. Make it visually distinctive instead of rather bland. That’d improve things considerably.

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