Loosely, they were stripes. Pin-stripes. And for your information Dan, I can distinctly remember John McGrath, in 1969-70, running out onto the pitch at The Dell, with his shorts hitched up so high he could have been a photograph from the 1980's, and his black shorts had a blueness about them from the sunshine that was reflecting off them. Whether that was from the material or from the copious amounts of Vaseline that he used to smear over himself, and so onto his shorts, was neither here nor there.
I really liked the Dimplex kit from 93-95, a good variation on the stripes and black shorts theme. It's obviously pretty difficult to have a genuinely unique kit, but I think with this approach we are at least aiming for something different.
I'd like the blue shorts for a change, but with the right kit iof course, whenever and whatever that may be. Will be interesting to se see the whole kit today........at the moment I actually prefer it than the pin stripe as I never got to like that kit. Adidas kits though, are they ever any good? As to what I'd prefer, stripes, sash, or a rank xerox style would be nice.
It's pretty funny seeing grown men getting angry (or otherwise emotional) over a mere game. But we do.
I don't understand people saying we had no stripes in the 80s. We had red stripes down the side and one big mofo of a white stripe down the middle. So it is not like there were no stripes at all. There is a draper tools kit which is mostly red with no stripes but that's about it.
That's is what I would call "clutching at striped straws" The kit was red and white and a diversion from the "traditional" kit. The reason was there was no outcry, was because it looked good and Kevin Keegan had just rocked up!
Well hopefully there will be a great signing this season that will make the kit more forgetable. It was still a red and white kit. Last season was red with an almost insignificant white stripe and this is red with stupid white bits on the sleave. I would like to by a new saints shirt but not until I can look at a shirt and think "that is a saints shirt". I don't get all this argument about our shirt being unique either apart from the sash and when we made our kit after pony our kit has been the same as others that had same make and stripes. When we were sponsored by flybe Exeter had the same kit with a different badge. I am not fussed about a need for being unique I just want a shirt that feels like a saints shirt. Also remove the gold... I am pretty sure we didn't win the league last season.
Voted Variation on Red & White Stripes, Black Shorts for this season considering we've just had an all red (don't try to tell me those pin stripes are a variation on stripes) shirt. wouldn't mind a rotation of all four as time goes on. My problem is we've had red twice in a row and whether that represents an intent to continue with that. and the gold, dear lord, the gold. is there a barf smiley?
I tend to agree with you and i consider that one a deviation or at least an incredibly broad variation, but i suppose if you took a giant striped shirt and cut out the middle to make a shirt you'd get something like the rank xerox kit. If you took many tiny striped shirts and sewed them all together you couldn't get the large uninterrupted portions of red that are present on the pinstripe. I think this argument is obviously flawless. *cough*
Haven't posted on here for literally a whole year but I had to reply to this. Those "patterns on fabric" represent our club and give us our identity so it's normal for people to be angry if they feel it doesn't do just that.
I've asked this of others... what exactly is our identity? I'd be keen to understand what this means.
John Travolta should probably have just kept Nicholas Cage's face and saved himself the bother. Ok i understand that some people argue that it's not always been stripes. It has been mostly though. and it's mostly been red white and black. (at least in living memory)
