We’re not embarrassed to admit that we hopped right on board the Olympic bandwagon of the 2010 Vancouver winter games. The Canadian spirit and excitement is contagious, we felt it the minute we departed on our Air Canada flight.
Below is a list of symptoms that means you, like us (and Mad Men's Jon Hamm seen here in his Canada gear), may have fallen prey to Olympic fever as well:
Symptom 1: You catch yourself dressing in sparkles and flesh-toned nylons while applying your “stage” make-up so that it “reads better on camera.” All while sow-cowing around your bedroom and sewing resurrected skating badges onto your new oil slick Alexander Wang cardigan.
Symptom 2: You have always fancied yourself quite a fast skater, but in recent weeks have been thinking more and more about registering for a speedskating class at the local public skating rink and practicing your forwards crossovers on dry land (reverse clock-work motion obv).
Symptom 3: You’ve resurrected your ancient red fleece and be-dazzled it in Canada and Olympic pins, even going so far as to call your uncle Bob in Montreal to see if he has any pin paraphernalia left over in his attic from the 1976 games.
Symptom 4: You called your parents and asked them to pull the box labeled ‘Winter Gear 1991’ out of the basement. Only to discover (according to your mother) that a moth had eaten the straps of your fave Vaurnet long sleeve tee and Sun Ice bomber and there are toxic mouse droppings smeared on your Uvex ski goggles.
Symptom 5: You find yourself driving blocks out of the way in order to pump gas at Petro-Canada in order to score one of their AMAZING ltd edition glasses
Symptom 6: When dressing to go out, more than once you have reached for your old ski-racing suit from the dredges of your tickle trunk. The conversation you had with yourself, might have gone a little something like this. “Its sort of American Apparel meets Stella McCartney for Adidas, I think its really cutting edge, and flattering. I mean, its basically a full-body, fluorescent spanx”.
We’ve embraced it! Tell us how you have! And one last thing…
GO CANADA
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