There are two things I love doing while watching the opening ceremonies of the Olympics - guessing which country is next in line for the parade of athletes, and judging the teams' outfits.
NBC ruined my first little game by showing a running tally of which country was coming up, but no one could ruin the fun of being a fashion judge!
The three worst teams, in my humble opinion were: the Canadians, with those weird shaped hood-collar things; the Chinese, with their strange long coats that made them look like evil doctors or chefs or something; and, worse than anything I had ever seen, the Germans! What were they thinking with those heinous orange, chartreusey-lime greeny color combinations. Ugly!
The best dressed team, again in my humble opinion, was I think the Latvians.. They had beautiful cream colored coats, lime green gloves, hats, and scarves, and brown pants (at least from what I remember. It looked really sharp! I'm desperately searching for some images of all the teams from the ceremony (I should have taken notes watching the ceremony last night - duh!). There were also a couple of teams wearing cream and deep red/burgandy with nice looking hats - which I thought was sharp looking.
If I remember correctly, Armani designed the Italian team's outfits. They looked like astronauts with those shiny coats - ick. Not a fan.
Overall, I thought that the opening ceremonies were really good. The 80s pop music accompanying the parade of nations was a little weird (and the commentary by NBC was abysmal). I liked the opera music, liked the fireworks display and loved how they lit the cauldron. The spiraling fireworks effect was really cool. The Ferrari thing was a little weird, the dove thing was pretty weak, and a lot of times the choreography looked a little disorganized - so Italian. I loved the people who did the guy who was skiing, then ski-jumping, whatever. That was pretty cool.
I think that the Italians did a really good job - and closing with Pavarotti was pretty classy too - although it sounded like he was really pushing his limits singing Nessun Dorma from Turandot.
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