Fashion Faux Pas: Italian Fishnet.

March 9th, 2010 | by: chris | View Comments

Italy’s Gianluigi Buffon’s official World Cup home kit was released recently, and it caught a few eyes. Largely because everyone at Puma thought it was to be for the Italian ski team to be performing at Vancouver, thus the reason it looks like it was made for…the Italian national ski team.

Coincidentally, Gigi pulled up lame with a thigh injury just before the recent friendly and thus he avoided having to wear the kit – Fedrico Marchetti was given that chore. Vicious rumors persist that Buffon was hiding from the kit. No one blames him.

There are a number of things going wrong here:

i. The Italian flag belt buckle, sans belt. In fact it looks like one of the rubbery logos you’d find on a ski jacket or combo slicker/floating device – still with the skiing theme.
ii. The Rorschach Italian flag being stretched across the upper torso. What year is this, 1987?
iii. The varying tones of black. There are a number of colors which can be slightly altered in a neighboring area and look just as brilliant; black is not one of them.
iv. And last, but most certainly not least, the presence of Gigi Buffon’s nipples.

It’s not quite fishnet, but there’s enough see-through here to make this a Cancun rubber hose short of ascending to PG-13.

More than simple nipples – it’s a weekly theme – Puma have really focused on the torso area of the Italian kits this year, complete with RoboCop Goes Tribal abdominal areas, so as to quiver opponents into submission. Or something.

You can check out the store for the entire set of Italian World Cup kits…except Gigi’s home kit. Because we have standards.

(Sometimes.)

[Via Football Fashion & Football Shirts]