Maybe an age thing as well. When I started watching it was plain shirts for the first five seasons so I've always thought of that as being City's normal look, even though stripes have been much more common.
Love the stripes like last season. Dunno why but the pinstripes just don't do it for me. Feels a bit too much like Wolves.
I quite like the design for Stoke's new kit, which is stripes but has a sort of chevron in the background. please log in to view this image