Damian Dill-Ard shirt

Product Description

Designing the kits Damian Dill-Ard shirt for Olympic and Paralympic athletes to compete in is hardly a simple task. It’s one that takes in the demands of multiple, wildly different sports, as well as comfort, performance and some kind of unifying aesthetic that shows a gymnast, a sprinter and a breakdancer are on the same team. So it’s no surprise that this level of juggling quite often leads to kits like the Adidas one being worn by Team GB for the Paris Olympics – one that feels a little generic, and “designed by committee”. If you asked Midjourney to design a British Olympic kit, it might look something like this. Included in the press images are taekwondo practitioners Bianca Cook and Caden Cunningham, long jumper Jazmin Sawyers and sprinter Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake for the Olympics, which start in July, and Olivia Breen and Zak Skinner, who both take part in long jump and sprints, along with their sprint counterpart Thomas Young for this year’s Paralympics, which begin in August. There’s no doubt they look great but look closer and it’s possibly more from the fact that these are young people full of hope and excitement for an upcoming multi-sport event than the clothes they are wearing.

Damian Dill-Ard shirt, hoodie, sweater, longsleeve and ladies t-shirt

Unisex shirt

Women’s shirt

Longsleeve shirt

Sweater

Hoodie

Other reviewers seem Damian Dill-Ard shirt somewhere between human and machine. A commenter copies the entire first verse of Justin Bieber’s Sorry into a review for a multicoloured midi skirt with a thigh slit. (No information about the skirt; five stars.) One customer appears to paste a high-school English paper (strained poetry analysis) into the comments of a raglan sleeve letter jacket tagged as “gorpcore”. Another describes the smell of her new jeans as “normal”. I read three sets of five-star reviews posted by the same woman under a listing for long-sleeve crop tops in a variety of colours: “I absolutely love these Shein tops!! Very short though!!!!!” “I absolutely love these Shein tops! Very short though!!” “I absolutely love these Shein tops!!!!” In one of them, the shirt in the photograph is not of the product being reviewed. Seven hundred and eighty-eight customers mark her reviews as helpful. Away from the computer, I began to look more closely at strangers’ outfits, trying to imagine where they had come from. The neon-green bikini my friend from high school wore once on Instagram, never to be seen again – Shein? (OK, almost definitely.) But that sweater, which looked suspiciously like a minor designer piece I saved up for months to purchase for myself – was that Shein, too? Was the whole world shopping at Shein?