As I was starting up my computer this morning, I ran across an
article on Yahoo about Olympic opening ceremony fashions. Being a sucker for an online fashion show, I clicked over. I would like to share a couple of pictures for the two or three other people on the planet who haven't already seen them ( Yahoo captions are in italics):
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| You can't pull off orange pants. I can't pull off orange pants. Only Dutch athletes can pull off orange pants. |
Sigh. There are some potential RDD's in the making. On the other side of the fashion spectrum, I give you Great Britain:
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| Are they in Abba? A cult? A recreation of Puffy and Mase in the "Mo Money, Mo Problems"
video? If the English do as well in the Olympics as they did in looking
the most ridiculous at their Opening Ceremony, then it's going to be
one happy fortnight in London. | | | | | |
The Brit's costumes do remind me of Gloria's knickerbockers (
A Dream Came True). Discuss.
The Dutch looked so good.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite group (though not fashion-wise) was the three athletes forming the Independent Athletes Group--sportsmen with no country. They looked like they were having SO much fun. (Even if the Netherlands Antilles has recently been dissolved, and Sudan was unacceptably grim for the other fellow to claim citizenship...)
I don't know that I disliked the Brit outfits but they did look a bit dance-clubby rather than Olympic. Instead of the athletes, I was distracted by the women carrying the country names at the head of each group. An A-line, shapeless dress with faces printed on it? No, no, no.
http://bayarea.sbnation.com/2012/7/27/3197816/london-olympics-opening-ceremony-live
Betty Debbie--
ReplyDeleteBetty Barbara here asking you to reconsider your phraseology regarding the orange pants. "Pull off"?? I KNOW you meant 'to wear and not look stupid'. But, ahem, I'm fanning myself at the thought of any of those hunky athletes actually pulling off (i.e. removing) said orange pants. Just sayin'
The 'pull off' quote is directly from Yahoo - it wasn't me (and I never even went there in my mind), but now that you point it out....
DeleteYou can't pull off orange pants. I can't pull off orange pants. Only Dutch athletes can pull off orange pants.
DeleteAnd my response to that quote is: Anytime they want to!
I'm new here, and I'm making my way through all the posts from 2010 on, but I haven't yet figured this out: What's an RDD?
ReplyDeleteBetty Caroline
RDD = Rich Dutch Doctor
DeleteThank you! So that makes RED = Rich English Doctor. Glad to have that cleared up. ;)
DeleteBetty Caroline
Though they are more likely RBDs= Rich Brit Doctors
DeleteWelcome to the site Betty Caroline!
Of all the British doctors, called politically correct RBDs, I can remember just one not being English. The Scot in A Match for Sister Maggy. Betty van den Betsy will know for sure.
DeleteActually, Sister Maggy's match, Paul van Beijen Doelsma, is entirely Dutch (Amazon in an Apron, a/k/a A Match for Sister Maggy, a/k/a Nurse in Holland, 1969). You may be thinking of Sir Fergus Cameron, who brings A Kind of Magic (1991) into the recently-a-bit-drab life of shorthand typist and Scotch exile Rosie Macdonald. A few others had vacation homes in Scotland, but I believe Sir Fergus is the only hero with a brogue.
DeleteYes, I meant Sir Fergus. Thank you. See, I knew you'd know for sure!
DeleteI did not even notice the short pants on the Brits until I looked at that photo! My goodness. I think I fixated on the gold trimmings.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite part of the opening ceremony? Mr. Bean! I love Mr. Bean. I have the whole set of his show. I tried to watch episodes while walking on the treadmill, and I found out it's impossible. I almost fell several times because I was laughing so hard. Has anyone ever seen the one where he loses his swimming trunks at the pool? Funniest thing I've ever seen.
Betty AnoninTX
My favorite is where he is trying to put on his swim trunks at the beach without that man on the lounge chair seeing him (of course it turns out that the man is blind). Another favorite is when he is taking the exam and tries to blow up the edge of the other students paper to see his answers, and when he falls asleep in church. Classic. Do you remember Shields and Yarnell?
DeleteBetty von Susie
Hahaha! I love both of those episodes! I love the Christmas one and the parking garage one too. Think I'll watch some Mr. Bean once the Olympics are over.
DeleteI had to look up Shields and Yarnell. I do remember them vaguely. We had one tv when I was growing up, and my dad was in control. I probably didn't get to see them much! :-)
Betty AnoninTX
I have just watched Mr Bean – Chariots of Fire, the video. So funny. Sir Simon's face!
DeletePerhaps the Brits' outfits were designed by David Bowie? With help from Elton John?
ReplyDeleteActually the Brit outfits were designed by Stella McCartney, famous daughter of that other famous person Sir Paul McCartney who also performed at the end of the opening. I thought they were a little bit disco meets Ali G in da house, clothes to party in so they can use them after the olympics are finished. I thought the USA team looked more french with their berets but they had a famous designer too in Ralph Lauren and our local Sunday newspaper gave them 10/10 for their outfits as opposed to 5/10 for the Brits.
DeleteActually just to clarify, Stella did design the Team GB sporting outfits but had nothing to do with these disco cast-offs. She's very particular about this (and can't say I don't blame her!) The culprit was Next, the high street retailer here in the UK. Bad Next, naughty Next!
DeleteUK Betty alert! Please, please, please tell us who you are and whether you live in a country cottage or a dodgy bedsit in the East End, and what you had for tea today. Oh, please, please tell...
DeleteJames Bond escorts Queen Elizabeth to the Olympic Opening Ceremony video. Alas, the cute little corgis had to stay home.
ReplyDeleteOn Twitter I follow Greg Wyshynski who writes the Puck Daddy (hockey) blog on Yahoo. He's in London. Today he tweeted "Ate something called 'Toad in the Hole' for dinner at a pub." Made me giggle. He must not read Betty books!
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