Team GB Fashion Choices

One thing that stuck me (and I mean that in a literal, what the ?, head-smacking kind of way) were the, shall we say, original ways the Union Jack design was used for draping supporters' during the Olympic Games.

  

Using the flag as a cape - well that's a no-brainer.  Not much originality there.

As a t-shirt or in a hat - a bit more interesting, but still rather tame.

I liked the man's bowtie I saw when standing next to him on the tube, a big boisterous man who had had a little too much Pimms and laughing very heartily with his colleagues for 2 stops before they went off to find another bolthole I suspect.  I wasn't in a position to photograph the tie, but I did think it was quite natty, if I might use such an archaic term. I do think a bowtie earns usage of such a word, especially when displaying two little flags in either side of a rotund set of chins.

But where the actual design of the Union Jack is deconstructed, then it got interesting.

It started with the athletes' costumes themselves, designed by Stella McCartney.

It looked wonderfull for little girl's dresses,

a little less so for bigger girl's dresses.


unless it was in a 1960s Carnaby Street mod kind of way in which case it worked just fine.

 

But it was absolutely ghastly for tights, especially when in a large font.

unless it's in a large font and worn with gold hotpants because that surely has to be worn tongue well planted in the cheek-like area. 

My thought is, if you are going to do it at all, do it with irony and do it proud.