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# Fug the Uniform: The USA in Sochi
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/fug-the-uniform-the-usa-in-sochi/
- Published: 2014-01-23T17:00:44.000Z
- Updated: 2014-01-24T05:26:09.000Z
- Author: Heather
- Tags: #wp, #wp-gallery, #slideshow, #Import 2026-10-07 07:37

## Julie Chu

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She is doing her best to look super dignified in this, but I think it's a futile battle. It's patriotism vomit. That cardigan is busier than a stylist during awards season. It looks homemade, and not in that "Hey, you should have an Etsy shop" kind of way; more the, "Oh, you... have an Etsy shop? For that? That's... so thrilling." It's like someone at Ralph Lauren stole an old lady's July 4 afghan blanket design and just tossed some rings on it. Hooray for the flag and all that, but it could be done so well.

## Zach Parise

![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/uni4.xml)

Also, why is the word POLO stamped on the lapel? I mean, I KNOW why, intellectually; it's because Ralph Lauren is self-promoting. I get it. You want everyone to know this is your work. (Although in this case: WHY GOD WHY. Nobody is seriously paying $600 to own one of these, right? They'll be on clearance for under $200 soon, surely.) But that jacket is crazy busy. The LAST thing, the very last, that it needed was another word on it.

## Hannah Kearney

![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/uni3.xml)

These are apparently the closing ceremony uniforms, which were revealed back in October. It's much better, right? The hat is a tad loud, but at least the pea coat is cute enough. And the horse is less obnoxious than the word POLO.

## Olympians

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2014/01/uni2.jpg)

The pants, though, are HIDEOUS ON EVERYONE. SO BAD. Although that dude in the middle -- that's Meryl Davis's ice dancing partner Charlie White, right? He looks like Evan Peters from American Horror Story, and those pants basically just delivered a package from him to all of us. If you get my drift.

Also, OF COURSE, the sweaters here say POLO across the front of them and I when I saw these back in October when they debuted these closing ceremony unis, I thought for a second, "Are these from the summer games? Wait, polo isn't an Olympic sport." It's so ME ME ME from Ralph Lauren. The horse, whatever. If you need your logo -- and I know other people put theirs on stuff and RL isn't the only one doing it -- then the horse should be as far as you go. A small horse, though. Don't make it about you, Ralph Lauren. It's about the Games and the athletes. And I guess their groins, based on how the pants look. Oy.

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