So far I'm not entirely digging this season of Survivor, but it may just be letdown from the last one. All these new people!

Perkins, Hayden won, and... not really. For a two-hour finale, it wasn't awful, but still, no. Oh! I bet the good parts are in the Gawker.tv recap. [link] All you really need to see is the Britney clip.

Thanks!

PR has taught me that I have NO IDEA what sportswear is, except it's probably not anything like what the term evokes in my head (which is basically things that could have Nike swooshes).

From Wikipedia:

Sportswear started out as a fashion industry term describing informal and interchangeable separates (i.e., blouses, shirts, skirts and shorts), but now describes clothing worn for a wide range of social events.[3] It was developed to cater to the needs of the increasingly fast-paced lifestyle of American women.[3] The early sportswear designers were associated with ready-to-wear manufacturers, rather than haute couture houses. The clothes were intended to be easy to care for, in easily washable fabrics, with accessible practical fastenings, to enable the modern, increasingly emancipated woman to dress herself without a maid's assistance.[4] While most fashions in America in the early 20th century were directly copied from Paris, designer sportswear was the exception to this rule, being an American invention.[4]

More history at the link. I think that the main thing is the definition described both easy clothing you could wear to take part or watch sports in an era when you usually needed a maid to help you dress. Thus: it's not what you would wear to take part or spectate in a sports today (necessarily).

Interesting. Thanks, sumi.

They really confused me by saying Valerie's was more streetwear than sportswear, but it didn't occur to me to look the terms up.

Oh, I meant to say I kind of wish Andy had been more specific when he was saying he doesn't consider himself an American sportswear designer. It wasn't the sportswear part he was disputing, MichaelKors!

Oh, I meant to say I kind of wish Andy had been more specific when he was saying he doesn't consider himself an American sportswear designer. It wasn't the sportswear part he was disputing, MichaelKors!

No kidding! He was clearly trying to put a spin on it by not making it so whitebread. I think if the look had had cleaner lines and fewer crotch issues... okay, they still wouldn't have liked it, but it would have gotten closer.

He was clearly trying to put a spin on it by not making it so whitebread. I think if the look had had cleaner lines and fewer crotch issues... okay, they still wouldn't have liked it, but it would have gotten closer.

Except Jacqueline Kennedy is whitebread. White French bread anyway. If it had been more clam digger and less harem pant, it could have worked.

Oh, sure, I'm not saying it was right for Jackie, but it was clearly an Asian-inspired silhouette, and he was not trying to puff himself up when he said he wasn't an "American sportswear" designer.