Australian uniform for Rio 2016 Olympics revealed

REACTION is coming thick and fast to the preppy mint green and white outfits Aussie athletes will don during the opening ceremony of the Rio Olympics.

SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES - MARCH 30: Australian athletes pose in the Australian 2016 Rio Olympic Games Opening Ceremony uniform during the Australian Olympic Games Opening Ceremony Uniform Official Launch at Bondi Icebergs on March 30, 2016 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Matt King/Getty Images)

AUSTRALIAN athletes are set to look mighty posh at the opening ceremony of the Rio Olympics after their green and white striped blazers with white bottoms were this morning unveiled.

Olympics broadcaster the Seven Network had a sneak peek of the Sportscraft-designed uniforms, which were launched in Sydney at 8.30am on Wednesday.

Australian athletes pose in the Opening Ceremony uniforms for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Picture: Phil Hillyard

“I think it has got that fun Rio feel to it but it has that vintage inspiration to it from the previous Olympics,” London Games silver medallist Jess Fox told Seven.

The names of Olympic champions are on the lining of the mint green blazers, which Fox said made it “really special”.

A striped gold accessory has also been chucked in, maintaining the green-and-gold tradition, in the form of a tie for men and scarf for women.

This is the seventh time local designer Sportscraft has been behind Australia’s Olympic uniforms.

Reaction to the preppy Ralph Lauren-esque look has been pouring in thick and fast on social media.

Australian Olympic uniform for Rio looks like cross between "Private School" and "Bananas in Pyjamas". We'll get used to it! #olympics2016

— Fabric (@adaptive_ape) March 29, 2016

Croquet with a hint of cruise ship https://t.co/OvVKdu37od

— Nathaniel Bane (@natbane) March 29, 2016

Don't mind the new Australian Olympic uniform if I do say so! A little bit corporate, a little bit party. https://t.co/rwBtT7hReS

— petehorsley (@petehorsley) March 29, 2016

The Australian Olympic uniform has been revealed..the jacket looks a bit like the Geelong Grammar uniform pic.twitter.com/nj28WGVjuy

— Reid Mahoney (@reid_mahoney) March 29, 2016

One person questioned the uniform’s practicality.

Those are some very white shorts/skirts on the Aus Olympic uniform. So white. I would be guaranteed to spill food on them within minutes.

— Emma Taylor-Bryant (@ebryantnz) March 29, 2016

And some refused to pull their punches.

Is it written into our constitution that the aus Olympic uniform has to be ugly? https://t.co/wI0ZqN1pGJ

— Bec (@becvec) March 29, 2016