Russian team clothes

It has become an integral part of the sport. They argue about her, criticize her, admire her and laugh at her. Many believe that it can influence the results of performances at competitions. Sometimes it gives informal names to its owners. Of course, we are talking about sportswear.

We will not be removed in the days of ancient Greece, when the main and unified form of athletes was its complete absence. Since then, the attitude towards clothes has changed, and sports have emerged, where special clothing cannot be dispensed with.

Initially, sports clothing was not very demanding. Its main task was convenience and functionality, when movements should be free during performances and games of athletes, but the athlete is protected from environmental influences. There were also more specific requirements for clothing for certain sports. For example, for winter species, it is important that warmth is maintained, but there is no overheating of the body.

The appearance of team sports could not but lead to the idea of ​​a single team form, so that when watching a game, it was easier to distinguish players from both the spectators and the judges. Apparently, this stage was the source of the birth of the general sports form.

Many athletes say that when they put on the form of their team, there is a feeling of unity, and if this official form personifies the country for which they stand, then patriotism provides an additional incentive for good performance. And also variants of an unsuccessful, inconvenient form can affect the results of the athletes' performances, well-known athletes also write about this in their memoirs.

The team sports championships held annually attract millions of spectators and fans, and it has become the norm that players demonstrate not only their game, but also their clothes. This circumstance attracts many companies to the production of sportswear for national teams and allows national leagues to choose among manufacturers and developers of their form.

So, for example, the Russian national football team, starting its history since 1992, at first acted still in the shape of the USSR national team, but during its existence managed to work with many of the world's leading sportswear brands - Adidas, Nike, Reebok. The color combinations changed, ornaments were introduced that personified Russia, except for the colors of the tricolor, these were ornaments of the Kremlin wall or chain mail.

The Russian hockey team is still trying to keep a reminder of the form of the USSR national team, thanks to which it received the name “Red Car”, although, like the players, it has undergone a sufficient number of changes.

It has already been mentioned that the most important task of a sports uniform is its convenience. But in our time there are many sports that have specific requirements for sports. Such types can include skiing, ski jumping, biathlon, freestyle, cross-country skiing and other sports, where clothing should provide maximum speed, but still be warm, because all this is winter sports. To solve such problems, firms specializing in sportswear specifically for winter sports, create new materials, special inserts that provide warmth, comfort, while maintaining a high streamline.

Russian national teams in winter sports are currently successfully working with equipment from such well-known companies as Vuarnet, Quiksilver, which use advanced technologies to provide comfortable, comfortable and productive clothing.

Speaking about clothes for athletics, it can be noted that in this kind of sport, the form has outwardly undergone few changes over the past decades. Although, of course, materials have changed here, the climate features of different countries have been taken into account, there are options for the warmed form for the possibility of year-round classes.

The Olympic Games have become not only the largest sporting event in the world, but also the largest fashion show. After all, the expense of viewers watching the opening and closing of the Olympic Games, goes to billions.

Not surprisingly, from the moment when the idea of ​​a uniform form for national teams was first voiced, this happened in 1936 in Berlin.

Designers of the highest level rushed to the development of the Olympic form. In this field, noted and Yves Saint Laurent, and Coco Chanel, and Pierre Cardin.

But the first form of the Russian national team appeared more than a hundred years ago at the games of 1912, when representatives of the national team came to the opening in white jerseys, straw hats with ribbons in the colors of the national flag.

The modern Olympic form, in difference from 1912, includes not one ten subjects, up to bags and purses. The development of such equipment is done by leading designers, the most famous brands are involved in its production.

The set of the Olympic form is divided into three categories - dress uniform, casual wear, worn not during the competition, clothing for sports performances.

The focus is always on the dress uniform, this is exactly the dress on which they meet. The difficulty of creating these clothes is that it is necessary to create a model that will look equally good on a two-meter basketball player, a powerful weight lifter and a fragile gymnast.

And it is the ceremonial clothes that cause criticism and admiration, create the mood of the team image of the country. Accordingly, the choice and development of it is usually decided at the state level. So it was in Soviet times, and continues to be now.

After all, the 1964 Olympics in Innsbruck, where the USSR national team struck everyone with luxurious golden seal fur coats, are still not forgotten. But it was rather an isolated case, because in those days, the state ideology assumed that the external aspect was not important in a person, but the internal content and dress uniform more often resembled party suits of party functionaries.

For the past 15 years, Bosco di Ciliege has been responsible for equipping the Olympic team. This cooperation brought different results, both recognition of the form of one of the best, and scandalous options. One of the branding scandals prompted the Federal Agency for Physical Education and Sport to develop uniform rules governing the use of national symbols, special attention was paid to the symbol of the country - the coat of arms of the Russian Federation.

Still very fresh memories of the recent Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

The form of the Russian national team on which, especially the gala one, was subjected from the very first show to multiple criticism from athletes, designers and ordinary sports fans. She wasn’t compared with anything else - the form of a doorman, a waiter, a suit well known to the older generation of Buba Kastorsky and even a stripper. Disagreements and about everyday game form, made in the style of Russian avant-garde. At the same time, Bosco believes that the form fully reflects the theme of Rio de Janeiro.

The contract of Bosco with the Russian Olympic Committee expired in January 2017 and the question of further equipping the team is currently open.

It is possible that the next outfitter of the Olympic team will be a domestic company.What will change it and how it will affect the performances of athletes time will tell.