What America's Winter Olympic Team Outfits Looked Like the Year You Were Born

U.S. Olympic athletes paraded through the opening ceremony of the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics wearing Ralph Lauren ensembles consisting of red, white and navy blue parkas with built-in heating systems. They also wore skinny jeans, wool sweaters, knit beanies, navy bandanas, brown boots with red laces, and brown suede gloves with fringe at the wrists. Flag bearer Erin Hamlinwas the only one to wear a white version of the Ralph Lauren parka.

At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, Ralph Lauren designed patchwork sweaters for the U.S. team to wear at the opening ceremony. Team U.S.A. stood out amongst a parade of otherwise simple uniforms that year.

In wild contrast to the preppy Ralph Lauren sweaters worn at the opening ceremony, U.S. athletes wore futuristic silver puffer coats designed by Nike to the medal ceremonies in 2014 at the Sochi games. Here, a team of American speed skaters show off the look after winning silver in the Men's 5000m Relay.

Ralph Lauren outfitted Team U.S.A. in another of his designs for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics closing ceremony. While they wore the same white pants, black boots and knitted beanies from the first look, they swapped out their loud and proud cardigans for navy blue, peacoats with a wide red strip at the waist.

That wasn't the first time Ralph Lauren dressed the U.S. Olympic Team in white pants. For the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, the designer made outfits that included white, cotton fleece pants paired with navy blue puffer jackets with red trim. The athletes also wore white cable turtlenecks, knit beanies and black mountaineering boots with red laces to finish the preppy look.

Shaun White is seen celebrating his gold medal victory in the Men's Halfpipe snowboarding competition wearing the official U.S. medal ceremony outfit for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games. Nike designed the navy blue puffer coats with light-blue ombre sleeves and paired them with black ski pants and black sneakers.

For the closing ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympic games in Vancouver, Ralph Lauren kept Team U.S.A. in the same white pants and black boots from the opening ceremony. But the athletes swapped out their puffer coats for a navy and red cardigan, and traded their beanies for navy blue caps that look like something straight out of Newsies.

For the second time in a row, Canadian Clothing Company Roots dressed the U.S. Olympic Team in berets at the opening ceremony. At least at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, the athletes got to pick which color — red, white or blue — they got to wear with their much subtler white and navy zip-up jackets.

For the closing ceremony of the Turin 2006 Winter Olympic Games, U.S. athletes wore another look designed by the Canadian brand Roots. The jackets had a retro '70s vibe complete with stripes in varying shades of blue and a bright red zipper set against a white backdrop. The outfits were accessorized with matching baseball hats and bold red and white USA scarves.

Roots, a Canadian clothing company, designed the U.S. OIympic Team's opening ceremony outfit for the first time at the 2002 Salt Lake City games. While you may not see many poofy fleece berets these days, they were so popular back then that Roots sold more than a million hats.

The medal ceremony outfits Roots designed for the 2002 Winter Games were basically the same as the ones U.S. athletes wore to the opening ceremony, just with one key difference. While the berets were still there, the zip-up was made from leather. Here, the U.S.A. bobsled team shows off their bronze medals in the outfits.

Figure skater Brian Boitano wears a look that could be described more as "1920s mobster-chic" instead of "Olympic athlete" during the opening ceremony of the 1988 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary, Canada. In addition to a white fedora and scarf, the men of Team U.S.A. wore long navy blue jackets while the women wore white coats with red scarves.