Alternate strip? 1914 style

[saintbrat]

Rhett Bartlett ‏@rhettrospective
Amazing!
StK v Carl at Junction Oval 1914 interrupted as players watch Maurice Guillaux perform aeroplane display


I enjoy following Rhett Bartlett on twitter as he has a twist on his view of football - much like his father- and is into history

[thequarry]

A black version of our current clash would be a great home strip. It's not just the actual design of the strip, but the fact that it's based on a jumper we wore over 100 years ago (1893-1914, post-original candy stripe and pre-red/yellow/black WW1 version) that makes it even better. Also shows up how poorly thought-out and ridiculous a lot of modern designs are.

The closest I guess we have to a modern version of the jumper in the shot as a permanent design is when we wore black shorts with the candy stripe in a practice match against Sydney in 2006:


Interestingly, for a period when we originally wore this jumper, some players wore a similar-but-different version in the 1906-1909 seasons which probably had a lot more red and white, and concurrently with the "default" strip.

This is a 1906 photo which is on Boyles Football Photos (http://www.boylesfootballphotos.net.au/HomePage):


Mero who operates http://footyjumpers.com/ thinks it translates into something like this:



Which, given the bigger presence of red and where it's placed throughout the jumper would actually provide for a higher-contrasting clash jumper than we've had for the past decade or so.

[st.byron]

A black version of our current clash would be a great home strip. It's not just the actual design of the strip, but the fact that it's based on a jumper we wore over 100 years ago (1893-1914, post-original candy stripe and pre-red/yellow/black WW1 version) that makes it even better. Also shows up how poorly thought-out and ridiculous a lot of modern designs are.

The closest I guess we have to a modern version of the jumper in the shot as a permanent design is when we wore black shorts with the candy stripe in a practice match against Sydney in 2006:

Love that candy stripe. One of my favourite jumpers.

[BigMart]

hated the candy strpie.... ugly and looked like an american 50s carnival/fair type uniform. hardly imposing.

i love the traditional jumper

and the inverse as the away jumper... white back

that simple

[thequarry]

hated the candy strpie.... ugly and looked like an american 50s carnival/fair type uniform. hardly imposing.

i love the traditional jumper

and the inverse as the away jumper... white back

that simple

That's definitely the dream.

I'd secretly love red numbers on a white back to accentuate the contrast with darker teams but I doubt the club/manufacturers would ever do it.