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Stone chino shorts, with green and gold details revealed with a casual roll-up, are worn with shorts with a green and gold pleated ombre shirt offering a more feminine alternative.
“Ombre skirts are the most Parisian element of the uniforms,” Hopkinson says.
With retro-pleats the knee-length skirt hemline might be too bourgeois for Parisienne tastes, and green and gold is not part of the current ombre trend in French fashion, but the athletes are happy.
“We were a little bit sceptical when it was hanging on the rack but now that it’s on, I like it,” says water polo player Tilly Kearns. “It’s quite preppy. It’s not often that you get to feel feminine as an athlete.”
Grounding the look are Dunlop Volley sneakers, a change of label for Jeff Dunne, making his Olympic debut in Paris in the new sport Breaking, also known as breakdancing.
“We’re usually super casual in our sport,” Dunne, 16, says. “It’s baggy pants, fitted shirts and really shiny shoes.”
“I would definitely wear the T-shirt and I quite like the gold around the belt, but this is too smart.”
The number of competing athletes and significant size differences continues to challenge the Sportscraft team, who have designed Australia’s Olympic opening ceremony uniforms since Atlanta 1996.
“Because of the scale of the manufacturing we do manufacture the uniform offshore,” Hopkinsons says. The majority of uniform production is in China. “We work with suppliers who have full transparency on their production that can fulfil the orders on time. We are measuring not just the athletes who are attending the Olympics but the ones who might attend.”
For Dunne, who has made the cut, it’s already a prized possession.
“I have some blazers for weddings and formal events, but I’m worried I’ll ruin this,” Dunne says.
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