Worst Figure Skating Outfits

THE IDEA:
Who hasn’t watched a figure skating championship without thinking “that must be the worst outfit ever”? Actually, most outfits are horrible in some way or another, since few skaters, like Carolina Kostner, have Cavalli as a personal stylist. The less fortunate (and less sponsored) skaters are forced to wear the skimpy, ruffled, asymmetric, totally unflattering, makes-him-look-gay-even-if-he-isn’t-products of small town (ex-Soviet) seamstresses or their mothers. We all remember the outfits of This often results in the ‘OMG-I can’t believe she/he is actually wearing this on national television’-reaction, which is common among figure skating fans like myself. And let’s be honest, not only the skating is being judged: the outfits are also part of the presentation