As Godders wished for new thread ideas...what is your preferred stripe width for Southampton home shirts? This assumes all stripes are the same width...
Perhaps if you added a blue pin-stipe to the already present red and white stripes, you could try variations of widths of all three stripes, until deciding on something like this Has any-one seen my coat?
There have been some pretty decent designs in all sorts of styles. Personally I think this season's kit is one of the best for years, but I wouldn't be against going back to the experimental approach of the late 70s and early eighties. Just so it's long as red n white, obviously.
Agreed, this season's form of red and white has been one of the best ever. Also the shirt design and fit has been one of the best. Up until this season, my favourite design of the conventional stripes was the 2001-2003 shirt [shame about the crappy Friends Provident advert on the front], but it was like a baggy tent on the players, instead of being a decent fit. I suspect someone in the wardrobe department specified a one-size-fits-all policy, back then. Note that it had small black stripes [see link below] in between the red and white. It helped to define the colours from a distance. I also liked the August 1989 shirt and kit. Posters will possibly remember that I don't like hooped socks of any kind, so I tend to prefer all white socks. When we have played the AAP3 shirt with the usual black shorts, but white socks, that's as good as it has got, for me. I don't know what the stripe widths are, but somebody will. Here's a link to jog memories for kits: http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Southampton/Southampton.htm
Looking through those old kits on the link above has reminded me that the "pony" ones pretty much lived up to the name. Weren't they also responsible for the blue striped away kit? Nasty business.
My view is we've been blessed with a number of good kits over the last 30/40 years, and I've been trying to work out if my liking of a shirt and the team we had at the time are linked..! I don't think too many stripes are needed, just something different. I hope we'll be easy to identify next season from the other red/white stripey's is all I'd like!
If Saints do want to have another break from the stripes, I would be incredibly happy if they decided to go back to something like my favourite kit of all - the Rank Xerox/Air Florida/Draper Tools Kit from 1980-85. I think that one looked superb. Also available with no advertising on at all..! I suppose it's no coincidence that it happened along at, arguably the most successful period in the club's history.
Forgot to mention that if Saints did want to stay with stripes, but with a different kit, I wouldn't object to a couple of seasons with the old Euro shirt from 2003-04. I wouldn't want the totally plain back though. Just a white rectangle for the numbers, like the shirts of the 1960s.
Can you believe this was 8 years ago..? Kevin Phillips is older than Rickie Lambert in this picture. And note - wearing the No.7. please log in to view this image
When I watched them on the TV in the fifties they always seemed to play in black and white stripes.........
Sao Paulo's away kit. If you think English clubs change their kit too often, Flamengo of Rio changed theirs 6 times in a season once, I think it was. Here's a nice blue one, Cruzeiro of Belo Horizonte modeled by Raposa, with a link to their shop website. please log in to view this image .
