China’s ‘ugly’ Tokyo 2020 Olympic uniforms mocked, compared with ‘stir-fried tomatoes and scrambled eggs’ outfits from 2016

The new uniforms have been compared with the 2016 team uniforms which were described as looking like a dish of scrambled eggs and stir-fried tomatoes

One fashion blogger approved of the new designs and said: ‘it demonstrates Chinese people’s graceful taste’

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The new outfits are ‘uglier than the fried tomatoes with scrambled eggs’ outfit worn to Rio, according to one online commenter. Photo: Handout

Published: 5:39pm, 15 Jul 2021Updated: 2:44pm, 16 Jul 2021

China’s new Olympic uniforms have been mocked as “ugly” and compared to the “stir-fried tomatoes and scrambled eggs” outfits worn at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

The Chinese Sports Delegation’s uniforms released on Wednesday, understood to be the national uniform for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, were instantly an item of scorn online. While later revealed to be the rowing team uniform, the initial reaction was one of denunciation that this was the national uniform.

The garments are a departure from the team’s previous uniforms that used bright yellow and vivid red as the primary colours. For the last Olympic Games, China’s uniforms were ridiculed for appearing like the Chinese household dish — stir-fried tomatoes with scrambled eggs.

China’s new Olympic outfits are worse than those worn to Rio in 2016, which were likened to a dish of scrambled eggs and stir-fried tomato. Photo: Artwork

The current uniforms are deep-purple suits with light-purple stripes and a red-edged collar for both male and female team members and long blue broken-flower skirts for female athletes. The new uniforms have been deemed by many to be even worse than those worn at previous games.

More than 120,000 comments have been left on news portal 163.com about the uniforms to date.

“It is uglier than the fried tomatoes with scrambled eggs one,” wrote one user. “We can call this the little boar’s strips of clothes.”