Brooklyn Nets cheerleaders debut street-style uniforms

Shea Peters
Examiner.com
September 24, 2012

Brooklyn has a new basketball team, but what’s making news are the cheerleaders…and their uniforms. The Brooklyn Nets open against the New York Knicks on November 1st at the borough’s new Barclays Stadium, while the “Brooklynettes” debut their new street-inspired uniforms. Complete with knee-high boots, fingerless gloves, and girl group attitude, the uniforms remind us of “The Fly Girls” of TV’s In Living Color fame.

“The uniforms are feminine and strong,” said the costumes’ designer, David Dalrymple, who has worked with designer Patricia Field, collaborating on costumes for Sex and the City and The Devil Wears Prada. “This isn’t palm trees and sunshine. It’s New York City, and it’s Brooklyn. It’s a different sensibility. We go hard,” Dalrymple says.

The Brooklynettes collection consists of seven uniforms, all in the team colors of black and white. “They have a jumpsuit, a neoprene scuba blazer with sequin leggings, a little cropped warm-up jacket, and painted sequin leggings,” Dalrymple told the Post.

“I do a lot of clothes for people in music,” said Dalrymple, who has designed costumes for Beyoncé and Mary J. Blige. The designer also fitted Britney Spears in her infamous nude rhinestone bodysuit for the MTV Music Awards in 2000. “For these costumes, we needed things that these women can dance and move in, but we wanted to bring in street elements. We needed to find that bridge of street fashion that can actually work on the court.”