History of Arsenal kits

MidfieldGeneral · Post by **MidfieldGeneral** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 7:14 pm

thought this was worth posting

http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Arsenal/Arsenal.htm

Post by **HashKads** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 10:05 pm

A few on here use this when a new kit comes out when discussing possible designs in a 100 page thread about 1 shirt.

Big_G · Post by **Big_G** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 12:19 pm

always love hearing the moans and groans when ppl saying yellow is our away kit colours and always has been...when you look at that, we were WHITE (so nice to see the club referring to this in last few years ey?

) and then we had BLUE until yellow was used in 1950 & 1952 FA cup finals, then not used until 1969.

So except for 2 games, we didn't wear yellow for over 70 years

paperclip · Post by **paperclip** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 12:26 pm

I'll think you'll find a much more accuarte and complete history of Arsenal kits over there
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Boomer · Post by **Boomer** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 12:29 pm

Big_G wrote:always love hearing the moans and groans when ppl saying yellow is our away kit colours and always has been...when you look at that, we were WHITE (so nice to see the club referring to this in last few years ey? ) and then we had BLUE until yellow was used in 1950 & 1952 FA cup finals, then not used until 1969.

So except for 2 games, we didn't wear yellow for over 70 years

But in those 70 years were wasn't technically the Arsenal!

However, from 69-70 to 93-94 We were in Yellow barring one season in (step) Green. 25 years!
It changed when the fuckers Nike showed up!

sabastiane · Post by **sabastiane** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 12:59 pm

I would love to see that website also show the different goalkeeper kits too. But, why am I complaining. Amazing work by those guys on that site.

olgitgooner · Post by **olgitgooner** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 8:48 pm

The 2005-2006 kit was supposed to be based on our old colours, wasn't it?

I don't see that colour anywhere on that link.

RNTGOONER · Post by **RNTGOONER** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 8:55 pm

it was the colour we wore when we first moved to highbury

Iceman29 · Post by **Iceman29** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 9:20 pm

Boomer wrote:
Big_G wrote:always love hearing the moans and groans when ppl saying yellow is our away kit colours and always has been...when you look at that, we were WHITE (so nice to see the club referring to this in last few years ey? ) and then we had BLUE until yellow was used in 1950 & 1952 FA cup finals, then not used until 1969.

So except for 2 games, we didn't wear yellow for over 70 years
But in those 70 years were wasn't technically the Arsenal!

However, from 69-70 to 93-94 We were in Yellow barring one season in (step) Green. 25 years!
It changed when the fuckers Nike showed up!

I like Nike. They are the premier sporting goods manufacturers

RNTGOONER · Post by **RNTGOONER** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 9:35 pm

olgitgooner wrote:The 2005-2006 kit was supposed to be based on our old colours, wasn't it?

I don't see that colour anywhere on that link.

I asked the guy who runs the site for you:

Hi Dave,

I believe in our first season at Highbury 1913/14 we wore a redcurrant shirt, and this was replicated for the last season at highbury in 2005.

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Michael - I am still trying to find reliable evidence for this. The notion of a "redcurrant" shirt was part of the promotional campaign for the 2005-06 strip and is not in itself evidence. I do not trust retrospective information put out by marketing people as it has generally proved incorrect.

Contemporary records describe Arsenal's early strips simply as red but I have become convinced that they were indeed a dark red but the precise tone has yet to be established. There is a colourised photograph of the 1913-14 team but the colourisation process is by no means accurate and I suspect it was produced to support the 2005-06 campaign.

Since no original shirts from this period appear to have survived, the jury is still out on this question.

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I see your point - Marketing deptmarments will do anything to shift merchandise, but we did play a team a few years back in the Champions League, might have been Swiss or Austrian that had a red current shirt, and was again as "ledgend has it" based on our original highbury shirt as we invited them to play against us in the first few years after moving to Highbury.

So that sorts that out... well sort of

Post by **DB10GOONER** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 6:43 am

So it is possible we never actually had a specifically "redcurrent" jersey?

It shouldn't surprise me where marketing scum (and our club) are concerned but I think that would be a serious pisstake on the club's behalf if they faked it.

Post by **flash gunner** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 7:07 am

Love our first ever away kit

Boomer · Post by **Boomer** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 8:31 am

Iceman29 wrote:
Boomer wrote:
Big_G wrote:always love hearing the moans and groans when ppl saying yellow is our away kit colours and always has been...when you look at that, we were WHITE (so nice to see the club referring to this in last few years ey? ) and then we had BLUE until yellow was used in 1950 & 1952 FA cup finals, then not used until 1969.

So except for 2 games, we didn't wear yellow for over 70 years
But in those 70 years were wasn't technically the Arsenal!

However, from 69-70 to 93-94 We were in Yellow barring one season in (step) Green. 25 years!
It changed when the fuckers Nike showed up!
I like Nike. They are the premier sporting goods manufacturers

Yes.....but they no fuck all about football and asking what the fans want!

Fans: "We'd like our away kit to be yellow with blue sleeves. See what you can do with that?"

Nike: Yellow and blue has been done before, forget tradition. How about this?
It's all white which is a 'pure' colour and show all which is good in the world and for football.

:awnker:

Big_G · Post by **Big_G** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 9:04 am

our first away kit on there was the scum colours

but then all teams away kits were white so that was always different unless home team wore white so u wore ur home, simples[/img]

Boomer · Post by **Boomer** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 9:08 am

Big_G wrote:

our first away kit on there was the scum colours

but then all teams away kits were white so that was always different unless home team wore white so u wore ur home, simples[/img]

Make sense as everything was black and white as colour didn't excist in the old days.
Well that's what I thought when I was young!