Town will wear a new orange third kit during Friday’s live-on-Sky game at Reading (KO 8pm).
The Blues registered last season’s orange away strip as their third kit for the season ahead but are unable to wear it due to a lack of existing stock and as adidas having stopped manufacturing it.
Therefore, adidas have supplied Town with an alternative orange shirt which will be worn with last year’s second strip socks and shorts when both the current home kit and the Barcelona-style away shirt clashes with the opposition. The orange shirt will not be on sale to fans.
A club spokesperson explained to TWTD: "Ipswich Town have a clause in their supply contract from adidas which states the minimum quantities of any ordered products.
"The minimum order for a third shirt, to be retailed, is 10,000 units in adult sizes and/or 10,000 units in youth sizes.
"This makes selling the shirt a completely unviable option. The 10,000 minimum order quantity is only slightly lower than our usual order for the home shirt each season.
"It’s likely that with its late introduction to the kit line-up we would have only sold through circa 2,000 shirts in this style."
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