This wet-weather jacket was designed and manufactured by Bonds as part of the uniform for transport personnel within Games Force 2000 - the accredited workforce for the Sydney 2000 Games. Around 16,000 transport volunteers, including bus drivers, car drivers, road management staff and transport information officers, provided transport services throughout the Games. The Workforce Uniform Program distributed around 90,000 Games Force jackets in the weeks preceding the Sydney 2000 Games.

Games Force 2000 was the accredited workforce that provided skilled and unskilled labour for most operations at the Sydney 2000 Games. Its team of 80,000 personnel, including volunteers, and contracted and paid staff, provided the most visible and some of the most essential services at the Games. In return, team members received complimentary transport to and from Sydney 2000 venues, complimentary meals when on duty, and a complete Games Force uniform.

The Australian clothing manufacturer, Bonds, was the official supplier of casual uniforms for the Sydney 2000 Games, and in this role it designed and manufactured over 1 million items of clothing for Games Force 2000. The resulting uniform distribution programme would be the largest in Australian peacetime.

Wendy Paulucci, Bonds' in-house designer, worked with SOCOG for three years to develop a uniform that would reflect the bright, casual, and essentially Australian mood of the Sydney 2000 Games. The Fluid Energy graphic - a swirling, concentric design -was fundamental to the look and image of the Sydney 2000 Games, and was a key visual element of the Games Force uniform. This theme appeared on all polo shirts and wet-weather jackets to unify the Games Force personnel and to complement the look of the Games.

Enhancing this motif was a vibrant colour palette that, "like the continent itself", was "a celebration of contrasts". This palette served to brighten the uniform and, most importantly, to delineate each of the service groups within the Games Force team. Sydney blue, the principal colour of the colour palette, was representative of games services; Sydney yellow of spectator services; Sydney purple of transport services; Sydney lime of security services; Sydney red of medical officials; Sydney indigo of technical officials; and Sydney aqua of SOBO - the Sydney Olympic Broadcasting Organisation. These colours appeared on the collars and sleeves of polo shirts and wet-weather jackets - key items within the basic uniform.

Aside from the polo shirt and wet-weather jacket, the basic Games Force uniform comprised drill trousers or drill skirt, a wide-brimmed hat and a hip bag. (Personnel wore their own shoes.) Additional accessories included water bottles, baseball caps and waterproof ponchos. A secondary range of casual clothing was designed for specific personnel, such as ball persons, tennis umpires, and badminton, boxing and wrestling referees. In addition, a formal uniform with drill trousers, business shirt, blazer and scarf or tie, served technical officials and games service personnel. Importantly, the overall image was bright, neat, casual and recognisable.

Designed by Wendy Paulucci at Bonds, April 2000

Made by Bonds, Malaysia 2000

Unused

Made for and owned by the Olympic Coordination Authority/Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games, and donated to the Powerhouse Museum after use in the Games.

Wet-weather jacket, Games Force uniform, Olympic Games, Sydney, 2000, nylon/polyester, designed by Wendy Paulucci, April 2000, made by Bonds, Malaysia, 2000

Jacket, size 'M', waterproof, nylon and polyester. Blue with purple collar, purple hood and lined with aqua open weave material. The hood has a purple drawstring nylon cord and can be folded away into a pocket in the back of the collar that fastens with blue Velcro. A cape covers the shoulders down to the chest at the front and the shoulder blades at the back of the jacket. The cape features the multicolored fluid energy design. In the middle of the back of this cape is the Opera House sails Sydney 2000 logo in silver. The front and back of the cape are joined under the arms of the jacket by a 10mm piece of material. Below this cape on the front left side is the Paralympic Games 2000 logo and text in white. The coat fastens with a sliver plastic tag with molded text 'Sydney 2000'. A panel of material covers the length zip and fastens using 4 silver press studs with the engraved text 'Sydney 2000'. The arms are made of two vertical panels of material sewn together. The cuffs of the sleeves can be tightened with Velcro straps. On the right arm the panel down the outside of the arm is purple, the panel on the inner side of the arm is blue. On the left arm both panels are blue. 'Sydney 2000' is transferred vertically in white text down the length of the right left; below this is a black and white Bonds label. The lower part of the jacket has one pocket on either side that open with flaps. Inside the jacket below the collar is a Bonds label featuring the multicolor fluid energy design and black text 'This garment is proudly supplied / by Bonds, sharing your / commitment to the Games'. A blue 'M' is on tag attached to the right side of this label. A white label appears in the left side seam with black text 'Made in Malaysia / M/ Name:' on one side and care instructions on the reverse. The Powerhouse Museum registration is sewn below this label.

Made: 2000

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