Uniforms at the 2024 Olympics Opening and Their Significance

The 2024 Paris Olympics have officially begun on 26th June 2024. Like every Olympic commencement, it features a grand opening ceremony where every participating country is showcased. The opening ceremony gives them the opportunity to highlight the beauty of their country’s traditional clothes in a stylish, modern manner. Their uniforms gorgeously tell the story of their history and fabrics.

Let’s take a look at some of the uniforms

Mongolia 🇲🇳

Designer: Michel & Amazonka

The uniforms adorned by the Mongolian team feature vests with detailed embroidery. You can observe several elements like the Soyombo symbol, and the mythological Gua-Maral deer. The designers commented that the uniforms took approximately 20 hours.

Mongolia at the Paris Olympics 2024

Sri Lanka 🇱🇰

Designer: Lovi Ceylon

The team representing Sri Lanka dressed up in silk and natural materials. It displayed designs that paid homage to the country’s traditional clothing culture through hand-made embroidery and beadwork inspired by 19th-century royal court attire.

Sri Lanka at the 2024 Paris Olympics

Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) 🇹🇼

Designer: Justin Chou

Blending modernity and traditional beauty, Justin Chou’s design for the Chinese Taipei team featured tailored suits by the hands of local artisans. They used banana fibre woven fabric and accesorised with a lapel pin of Taiwan’s national flowers. The suits are also inspired by Paul Chaing’s “Mountain Range of Taiwan” painting.

Chinese Taipei Uniforms at the 2024 Paris Olympics

Czech Republic 🇨🇿

Designer: Alpine Pro

Czech Republic proudly wear their national flag. The attire at the opening ceremony consists of a blue blotted and white trench coat inspired by Czech ‘baloňák’ coat. Underneath the trench coats, they adorn gradient t-shirts and polos, and blue trousers. The athletes also have a green bandana with blue markings, whether it’s attached to their wrist, neck or any other part of their body.

Czech Republic at the 2024 Paris Olympics

Haiti 🇭🇹

Designer: Stella Jean

Patterned with a painting by Philippe Dodard’s titled “Passage”, it blends modernity, style and tradition seamlessly. The women adorn the vibrant pattern with a woven shirt and a belted blazer. Meanwhile, the men don light blue field jackets inspired by the traditional Haitian Guayabera shirt.

Haiti at the 2024 Paris Olympics

Ireland 🇮🇪

Designer: Laura Weber

Ireland’s all-white outfits honor the country’s century-long involvement in the Olympic Games. Each athlete’s jacket features a unique embroidered patch on the sleeve, displaying a design embellished with beads, sequins, and stones. Additionally, the jackets include a shamrock brooch, made from four embroidered four-leaf clovers, as a symbol of good luck.

Ireland at the 2024 Paris Olympics

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