The Daily Orange asked Todd Conover, an adjunct fashion design professor at Syracuse’s College of Visual and Performing Arts, to critique SU’s uniforms in five sports.

Football:‘The orange is too orange. If it were my design, I would make the bottom half of the uniform be all blue and maybe have an orange stripe to mix it up. There’s a lot of orange. Orange is a hard color to wear. I think that it would be a much nicer look if it were broken in half. The proportion would be orange on the top with blue stripes and blue on the bottom with orange stripes … it’s silly looking to have it all orange.’

Basketball:‘It’s all one color so it gives it a hospital ‘Scrubs’ look to it. This does have more of a graphic appeal than the football uniform does. It says something and spells out something.’

Volleyball: ‘This one is totally different. The top is one set of colors and the bottom is another set of colors. It makes it look like it’s more broken up and not some old-time gym suit in the 50s that girls would wear where they tie themselves into and it was all one color. That was sort of the appeal of something that is all one color. This is broken up a little bit. The shorts are shorter and the shirts are cropped. It has a stylish moment.

Field hockey:‘The field hockey uniform, out of all of them, is the better designed. Notice how the seaming on the shirt follows the contours of the body. It highlights the shape and it’s a garment you could perhaps wear away from the field hockey field.’

Men’s soccer:‘The color combination and graphics of this one works similarly to the field hockey uniforms. But the fit of it looks very loose. That’s the difference between men’s and women’s wear. That often comes into play.’

Published on November 7, 2007 at 12:00 pm