Australian why green and gold

The golden wattle flower, and the colours green and gold, are also featured on the Coat of arms of Australia. The Australian government states that, to be used correctly, the colours are placed side-by-side, with no other colour between them. The colours are always referred to as "green and gold", respectively. Nearly every current Australian national sports team wears them although the hues and proportions of the colours may vary between teams and across eras. Australia's cricket team first wore the colours in , in the form of the baggy green, the cap presented to Australian cricket players.

The first Australian national sporting team to wear green and gold was the Australian cricket team that toured England in Their clothes were the traditional white, but the captain Joe Darling arranged for green and gold caps and blazers to be worn for the opening match of the Ashes series.

Previously, the team had had no uniform cap or blazer colours but wore an assortment of club or state colours. The Australian cricket team continued to use the colours thereafter, and in the colours were ratified as the official team colours for future Australian cricket teams.

During subsequent discussions by members of the New South Wales Cricket Association, the colours were reportedly referred to as " gum-tree green" and " wattle -gold". The Australasian Olympic team adopted "green and wattle" in , but not every team played in the colours. In the Olympics , an official Australian uniform was adopted for the first time: green vests with gold trimming, and white shorts with green and gold trimming. Hence the phrase "thirteen to the dozen" or "a baker's dozen".

A baker's dozen is 13 instead of twelve to compensate customers in case any of the twelve rolls had inadvertently been burnt during baking a sort of insurance for bakery purchasers. And why lily, for that matter? Email your answers, or any questions you want answered, to bigquestions smh. Why are Australia's colours in sport always green and gold, whereas other countries use their flag colours?

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