At the 2024 Olympics, Team USA will once again wear a quintessential American designer: Ralph Lauren. We went behind the scenes at Ferrara Manufacturing to see how the historic garments were made.
return in full force, the first games to allow spectators at full capacity since 2016. At the opening ceremony this evening, teams from across the world will parade down the Seine River in Paris, and, for the ninth year, Team USA will be
The Ferrara team has been at work on the uniforms for over a year, producing more than 1,000 in total. For the opening ceremony, athletes will wear a navy blue blazer with red trim, a blue and white striped oxford shirt, light-wash jeans, and white suede buck shoes. The closing ceremony uniforms include a white denim moto-style jacket emblazoned with 'USA,' a polo shirt, and white jeans.
The cutting machine scans the pattern of the fabric and pulls it up on a nearby desktop. Some machines can cut multiple layers of fabric, layered like a croissant. But others are single ply, and used for more complicated textiles. "We cut each plaid and stripe one by one...so that we get an exact match" says Gabrielle Ferrara, chief operating officer of Ferrara Manufacturing.
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