I don't know. From checking on HullCityKits for my previous post it looks like we first did it in the mid 30s and then had the more well-known Raich Carter era kit a decade or so later. I know there's been talk of colour shortages around WW2 which maybe led to us wearing blue for a bit at one point? But not sure whether any of that relates to the answer to your question.
As I’ve always understood it, we were going to change to Blue and Gold and the badge was going to be 3 crowns. All to reflect the City as a whole as the council had used those motifs. Not sure why it never happened
It was going to be blue and orange. Needler wanted to change the name to Kingston Upon Hull AFC. There was an outcry, the HDM were sensible and took the fans side and he backed down, But Needler did not like striped kits and insisted on a plain amber one. Wonder if we would have kept the nickname if he had got his way? Being orange we could have been the Satsumas. The programmes for the first games at Boothferry Park were printed in advance and featured the proposed new kit.
No. I have explained it another post, if you read it. All to do with Harold Needler wanting to change the name, like Allam he wanted to shorten it, in his case to Kingston Upon Hull AFC, and change the colours to orange and blue.There was only I season prior to WW2, when it was an ultramarine blue. Ironically that was the year the steam loco bearing the name Hull City was built so the nameplate was blue. After the war it was black with gold lettering Despite it being repainted with stripes it never had amber on it during its days of running on the railway. We did wear pale blue for one season after the war because of shortage of dyes.
When we did or didn't have stripes historically is kind of irrelevant. The five years we spent in the PL - always in stripes - have given us a world-wide, identifiable and iconic brand that we could only dream about 20 years ago. I know people in Brazil who recognise the kit and know the club and the nickname. To abandon that now would be a mistake IMHO.
Juventus, the two Milan clubs, Newcastle and others must be awful to follow then, stripes year after year.
