The dress uniform will comprise a unisex hooded rainforest green jacket, complete with wattle piping, and grey gum chino pants and volley shoes, while female team members will also receive a rainforest green inverted pleat skirt with a wattle hem band.

Male and female athletes will each receive fitted white dress shirts with coloured trims, and separate green and gold long and short sleeve polo shirts with side colour panelling.

Although the design certainly marks a novel approach to the Games uniform, it has met a somewhat sceptical response from various quarters, with some citing the lack of suitability to the likely weather in Scotland.

But measures have been taken to alleviate this concern, after it was claimed that, "given the likely cooler Scottish evening temperatures, athletes will also be provided with a woollen scarf and a ribbed neckline pullover with radical thumb loops in the sleeve".

Netball player Bianca Chatfield poses in the striking green Australian uniform
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As well as Bianca Chatfield, a member of Australia's netball team that won the World Championships in 2007, many other athletes were present at the unveiling, held today at the appropriately named Glasgow Street in Collingwood.

These included swimmers Mack Horton and Belinda Hocking, squash player Sarah Cardwell, diver Grant Nel, long jumper Brooke Stratton and middle distance runner Jeff Riseley, along with Australian Chef de Mission Steve Moneghetti.

Also present was Australian Commonwealth Games Association (ACGA) chief executive Perry Crosswhite, revealed the uniform had been developed in collaboration with the Australian Defence Apparel (ADA).

"The ACGA has a long and proud tradition, and an established practice, of seeking Australian manufacturers to make and supply the team formal uniform," he said.

"Since the Games began more than 80 years ago, Australia has dressed teams in formal uniforms provided by Australian companies, in most cases made in Australia.

"These companies include Farmers, Fletcher Jones, the Australian Cotton Foundation, the Woolmark Company, Sportscraft, Table Eight Corporate, and now, in 2014 for Glasgow, ADA.

"For 2014 the ACGA was committed again to find Australian companies which were capable of designing and supplying garments which would appropriately meet the requirements of our large and diverse 2014 team, which includes athletes and team officials of different shapes and sizes.

"The clothes would also have to be suitable for the Glasgow climate and for an evening Opening Ceremony.

"As always, most importantly the uniform must be proudly worn by the team."

At the Games, due to underway in Glasgow on July 23, Australia will be looking to repeat their success at Delhi 2010, which saw them finish top of the medals table with 177 medals, of which 74 were gold. 

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