Gk Fashion Show 2016 Olympic Trials
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See the U.S. Olympic Team'south Gymnastics Uniforms Through the Years
So much red, white, and blue.
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You just purchased a 'TEAM USA' t-shirt on Etsy, your plans for the side by side few weeks revolve around sports, and yous're suddenly an skillful on the ins and outs of gymnastics scoring. In other words: the 2020 Tokyo Olympics have finally arrived (after a year-long delay!) and the time has come to stan the U.S. gymnastics team. And besides their outfits, naturally.
While the looks Olympic athletes wearable might not seem similar the most important thing e'er, for the U.S. gymnastics squad, they kinda are! Literal points get deducted if their leotards aren't perfect, they're custom-made for each athlete, and they take years to design. Basically, they're the ultimate mix of style and functionality, and the designers who make them accept been doing The Near since back in the 1930s.
This twelvemonth's leotards are from GK Elite, and feature 7,600 Swarovski crystals each. "There'south a lot of inquiry and development that goes into it," Kelly McKeown, the master design officer for GK Aristocracy, told Cosmopolitan back in 2016. "Information technology's something you don't want to blitz. If you lot want to use a new technique, if yous want to experiment, and then you lot have to article of clothing-test it, yous have to wash-test it, you have to brand sure that it'south not going to fail on the contest flooring."
Click through all fifty photos to how the U.S. gymnastics team's uniforms have evolved over the years!
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1936 — Berlin
Consetta Caruccio-Lenz
In a pre-spandex world, jumping over a pommel horse was a medal-worthy feat, even without flips and twists.
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1946 — London
Marian Barone
Information technology's sort of like an oversize baby onesie with a beauty queen sash. At to the lowest degree it doesn't look constricting!
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1948 — London
Information technology's the cute ballet slippers for me!
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1956 — Melbourne
Muriel Davis
In the 1950s, everyone wore their pants upwards around their armpits. Fifty-fifty their track pants.
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1960 — Rome
Sharon Richardson, Doris Fuchs, Muriel Davis
The blue tracksuit would eventually become a staple of every U.S. Olympic gymnastics team.
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1964 — Tokyo
Muriel Grossfeld
This look is brought to you by hair spray: Likewise much is never enough!
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1972 — Munich
Cathy Rigby
No "U.s.a.?" No red, white, and blue? What's going on hither?
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1984 — Los Angeles
Mary Lou Retton
That'south ameliorate. America!
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1984 — Los Angeles
Mary Lou Retton
How do I go an exact replica of this tracksuit for my everyday wear?
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1984 — Los Angeles
Mary Lou Retton
The vibes here are and so aggressively '80s, it'south similar I'chiliad watching Stranger Things.
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1984 — Los Angeles
Tracee Talavera
These prints are starting to get quite elaborate.
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1984 — Los Angeles
Squad The states
Tell me you're from the USA without telling me you lot're from the U.s.a..
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1988 — Seoul
Phoebe Mills
Non gonna lie, I kinda want ane of these just to, like, wear around.
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1992 — Barcelona
Betty Okino, Wendy Bruce, Dominique Dawes, Shannon Miller, Kerri Strug, Kim Zmeskal
Is there anything more than '90s than a giant printed Windbreaker?
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1996 — Atlanta
Dominique Dawes
This was the year Team USA started experimenting with metallic prints like the big gold star on the side of this leotard.
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1996 — Atlanta
Shannon Miller
For the nearly function, all the uniforms this year were white.
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1996 — Atlanta
Kerri Strug
This one had a blue sleeve, though, and then that'due south a little different.
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1996 — Atlanta
Shannon Miller
She was the queen of gymnastics in the '90s, and that scrunchie was her crown.
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1996 — Atlanta
Amanda Borden, Dominique Dawes, Amy Chow, Jaycie Phelps, Dominique Moceanu, Kerri Strug, Shannon Miller
Windbreakers required; pants optional.
(Actually, Kerri Strug bankrupt her ankle landing her terminal vault of the team competition and couldn't get her pes through the leg of her rails pants.)
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2000 — Sydney
Elise Ray
More than white. This fourth dimension with slightly metallic ruby-red sleeves.
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2000 — Sydney
Jamie Dantzscher
Ruby-red, white, and blue. All at the same time. Novel!
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2000 — Sydney
Dominique Dawes
Solid blood-red with just a hint of white—a assuming divergence for Team USA. Sort of. Not really.
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2000 — Sydney
Amy Chow
And then we have solid reddish with but a hint of blue! Ya know, merely mixing things up!
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2004 — Athens
Carly Patterson
Annnnnd we're back to more often than not white.
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2004 — Athens
Courtney Kupets
Whoa! Purple. Weird. Although, if you recall about information technology, majestic is just red and bluish mixed together.
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2008 — Beijing
Carly Patterson
Back to red, just this time with crystals! ~*SpaRkLy*~.
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2004 — Athens
Carly Patterson
A closer look at the lewk.
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2004 — Athens
Annia Hatch
The assignment is stars! and! stripes!
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2008 — Beijing
Mohini Bhardwaj
No crystals this time, simply the metallic carmine on this leotard sparkles nearly every bit well.
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