| Past away and third kits. 21:22 - Apr 29 with 1242 views | MattinLondon |
I guess that this is a question for the elder statesmen of this board or if there’s any ITFC historians on here.
I’m just intrigued what the colours of past Town away kits were? I think that in the 50s we would’ve played teams like Sheffield Wednesday, Blackburn and Brighton and so did we have third kits back then?
One of those questions that I’ve always wondered - cheers. |  | | |  |
| Past away and third kits. on 21:45 - Apr 29 with 1160 views | VanSaParody |
Good question, not sure, but perhaps it may have been the home team who played in a changed strip if any clashes? |  | | |
| Past away and third kits. on 21:49 - Apr 29 with 1141 views | MattinLondon |
| Past away and third kits. on 21:45 - Apr 29 by VanSaParody |
Good question, not sure, but perhaps it may have been the home team who played in a changed strip if any clashes? |
That’s possibly something that happened.
I know from looking at previous FA Cup finals from the 50s that third kits were a thing back then and so what with our colours being rather generic - colour clashes were quite frequent especially blue and white kits. | | | |
| Past away and third kits. on 21:59 - Apr 29 with 1092 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
Everything was in black and white anyway.
"Ray Reardon, here going for the blue, and for those of you watching in black and white, that's the ball immediately behind the pink" |  |
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| Past away and third kits. on 22:06 - Apr 29 with 1074 views | ITFC_Essex |
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Football wasn’t as uniformed going way back, I believe TV had an impact (being black and white) on what happened with strips. I believe the proper first 3rd kit, was an orange third strip made by adidas in the early 80s to compliment the white version. This echoed again when we adopted the pinstriped kits. The next third kit was mid-80s and was the original red/black AC Milan rip off, and we had both a white and a red away kit a few seasons later used as 2nd and third kits interchangeably. We have a white third in 1991 which carried over in 92/93 and that’s when we had the second AC Milan rip-off 3rd for a season.
In the 90’s we had the green/claret (away in 1995/96) which acted as the third shirt in 1996/97, and that was the last time we sold three kits for a while. The thirds in 1997/99 (white), 2000/01 (deep red, never used), 2001/02 (black), 2002/03 (white) were never sold to the fans. The 2003-05 white third kit was sold as one off. When then started the tradition of reusing away kits as thirds for the following season from 2005 right through to 2014, with only one off produced in that period (2009/10 white).
Interestingly the red away, released by Mitre in 2008, is our longest serving strip of the century, being used right up until 2012 as a third kit. |  |
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| Past away and third kits. on 22:06 - Apr 29 with 1073 views | BrianTablet |
| Past away and third kits. on 21:49 - Apr 29 by MattinLondon |
That’s possibly something that happened.
I know from looking at previous FA Cup finals from the 50s that third kits were a thing back then and so what with our colours being rather generic - colour clashes were quite frequent especially blue and white kits. |
And not to forget 1896, when Engineers - despite playing at home - controversially wore their 4th change strip* against Corinthians in order to sell more replicas in Siam.
*designed by superfan LS Lowry. |  |
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| Past away and third kits. on 22:18 - Apr 29 with 1030 views | MattinLondon |
| Past away and third kits. on 22:06 - Apr 29 by BrianTablet |
And not to forget 1896, when Engineers - despite playing at home - controversially wore their 4th change strip* against Corinthians in order to sell more replicas in Siam.
*designed by superfan LS Lowry. |
Think that may well have been the origin of the phrase ‘games gone’. | | | |
| Past away and third kits. on 22:42 - Apr 29 with 975 views | MisterBlue |
During the 50's I believe towns alternate kit was white shirts as would have been the case for most teams, unless of course that was the first choice - Spurs used to wear dark blue as a change.
Found this article on Sunderland using Newcastle's black & white stripes because of a clash -
https://www.sunderlandecho.com
With a changes in production techniques, for "sports wear" in the early 60's saw us use red as an alternative, before yellow and blue.
Third kits didn't exist and only started to make an appearance in the 80s, partly due to he increase in televised football, and even then replicas were very rarely sold by clubs.
https://www.historicalkits.co. |  | | |
| Past away and third kits. on 22:54 - Apr 29 with 927 views | MisterBlue |
| Past away and third kits. on 22:06 - Apr 29 by ITFC_Essex |
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Football wasn’t as uniformed going way back, I believe TV had an impact (being black and white) on what happened with strips. I believe the proper first 3rd kit, was an orange third strip made by adidas in the early 80s to compliment the white version. This echoed again when we adopted the pinstriped kits. The next third kit was mid-80s and was the original red/black AC Milan rip off, and we had both a white and a red away kit a few seasons later used as 2nd and third kits interchangeably. We have a white third in 1991 which carried over in 92/93 and that’s when we had the second AC Milan rip-off 3rd for a season.
In the 90’s we had the green/claret (away in 1995/96) which acted as the third shirt in 1996/97, and that was the last time we sold three kits for a while. The thirds in 1997/99 (white), 2000/01 (deep red, never used), 2001/02 (black), 2002/03 (white) were never sold to the fans. The 2003-05 white third kit was sold as one off. When then started the tradition of reusing away kits as thirds for the following season from 2005 right through to 2014, with only one off produced in that period (2009/10 white).
Interestingly the red away, released by Mitre in 2008, is our longest serving strip of the century, being used right up until 2012 as a third kit. |
There was an orange 3rd kit in 77/78 (same Adidas template as blue/white and white/black) worn against Bristol Rovers in the cup | | | |
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| Past away and third kits. on 22:59 - Apr 29 with 920 views | gainsboroughblue |
I may be wrong but I think it's roughly this. I'm only going up to mid to late 90s as it would hurt my brain.
AWAY
White for much of our history
Late 60s to early 70s- Red
72 (ish) to 77 (ish)- Yellow/Blue
77-87- White
87-89- Red
89-92- Orange
92-93- White
93-95- Red
95-96 Green/Maroon
96-97- Cream/Black (previous third kit)
98-2000- Orange
THIRD KITS
78-81 (ish)- Orange/Black
82-84- Red
84-87 Black and Red Stripes
87-92- Can't remember (possibly white unofficially)
92-93- Black/Red Stripes
93-95 No idea (probably didn't need one but a white shirt was probably held in reserve)
95-96- Cream/Black
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| Past away and third kits. on 23:14 - Apr 29 with 868 views | MisterBlue |
| Past away and third kits. on 22:59 - Apr 29 by gainsboroughblue |
I may be wrong but I think it's roughly this. I'm only going up to mid to late 90s as it would hurt my brain.
AWAY
White for much of our history
Late 60s to early 70s- Red
72 (ish) to 77 (ish)- Yellow/Blue
77-87- White
87-89- Red
89-92- Orange
92-93- White
93-95- Red
95-96 Green/Maroon
96-97- Cream/Black (previous third kit)
98-2000- Orange
THIRD KITS
78-81 (ish)- Orange/Black
82-84- Red
84-87 Black and Red Stripes
87-92- Can't remember (possibly white unofficially)
92-93- Black/Red Stripes
93-95 No idea (probably didn't need one but a white shirt was probably held in reserve)
95-96- Cream/Black
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https://casualfootballshirts.c | | | |
| Past away and third kits. on 10:37 - Apr 30 with 555 views | FBI |
That 1977-78 Dundee United kit was a thing of beauty. |  |
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| Past away and third kits. on 11:00 - Apr 30 with 498 views | MattinLondon |
| Past away and third kits. on 22:42 - Apr 29 by MisterBlue |
During the 50's I believe towns alternate kit was white shirts as would have been the case for most teams, unless of course that was the first choice - Spurs used to wear dark blue as a change.
Found this article on Sunderland using Newcastle's black & white stripes because of a clash -
https://www.sunderlandecho.com
With a changes in production techniques, for "sports wear" in the early 60's saw us use red as an alternative, before yellow and blue.
Third kits didn't exist and only started to make an appearance in the 80s, partly due to he increase in televised football, and even then replicas were very rarely sold by clubs.
https://www.historicalkits.co. |
But surly even in the fifties if we played a team like Blackburn or Brighton, a blue home kit and white away kit wouldn’t be able to happen? Or maybe I’m overthinking this. | | | |
| Past away and third kits. on 15:26 - Apr 30 with 339 views | flykickingbybgunn |
But it was not until the 80's that replica shirts became a thing. I know I did not buy one until 1992. |  | | |
| Past away and third kits. on 15:38 - Apr 30 with 319 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Past away and third kits. on 21:59 - Apr 29 by Cheltenham_Blue |
Everything was in black and white anyway.
"Ray Reardon, here going for the blue, and for those of you watching in black and white, that's the ball immediately behind the pink" |
Innit. The world must have been really boring before we invented colour. |  |
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| Past away and third kits. on 15:54 - Apr 30 with 290 views | MattinLondon |
| Past away and third kits. on 15:38 - Apr 30 by Swansea_Blue |
Innit. The world must have been really boring before we invented colour. |
The invention of colour allowed clubs to sell a lot more replica kits - makes you think. [Post edited 30 Apr 15:54]
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| Past away and third kits. on 18:22 - Apr 30 with 163 views | Rimsy |
I think the second kit should always be white/black /white. Third kit you can go a bit adventurous. |  |
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| Past away and third kits. on 21:22 - Apr 30 with 80 views | MisterBlue |
| Past away and third kits. on 11:00 - Apr 30 by MattinLondon |
But surly even in the fifties if we played a team like Blackburn or Brighton, a blue home kit and white away kit wouldn’t be able to happen? Or maybe I’m overthinking this. |
The referees had better eyesight back then. 😀
I think you maybe over thinking it, Town would likely have worn white shirts / black shorts.
As per the Sunderland Echo link in the previous post, teams would borrow kit from local teams if there was no other option. | | | |
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