Comments on: Footballshirtculture.com http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/2007/11/17/footballshirtculturecom/ A soccer blog featuring essays, news and photography exploring soccer around the world Tue, 03 Apr 2012 22:48:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ursus arctos http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/2007/11/17/footballshirtculturecom/comment-page-1/#comment-951 ursus arctos Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:41:04 +0000 http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/2007/11/17/footballshirtculturecom/#comment-951 I've always considered that to be the definitive Albiceleste kit, and yet my aesthetic appreciation of it has always been tinged with unpleasant memories of the political context in which that World Cup was held and the whole controversy over the semi-final with Peru. As to the Oranje, I prefer the very similar '74 kit, if only because it provided the canvas on which Cruyff stuck his two fingers up at adidas (and thrilled his sponsors at Puma) by getting rid of one of the three stripes. The consensus of the commenters on the site is that the '78 World Cup was the high water mark of kit design, and there is a lot to be said for that view. By 1982, highly commercialised design elements (like the multiplicity of Admiral logos on Belgium's curved "Coventry-style" stripes) had already begun to rear their ugly head. I’ve always considered that to be the definitive Albiceleste kit, and yet my aesthetic appreciation of it has always been tinged with unpleasant memories of the political context in which that World Cup was held and the whole controversy over the semi-final with Peru.

As to the Oranje, I prefer the very similar ’74 kit, if only because it provided the canvas on which Cruyff stuck his two fingers up at adidas (and thrilled his sponsors at Puma) by getting rid of one of the three stripes.

The consensus of the commenters on the site is that the ’78 World Cup was the high water mark of kit design, and there is a lot to be said for that view. By 1982, highly commercialised design elements (like the multiplicity of Admiral logos on Belgium’s curved “Coventry-style” stripes) had already begun to rear their ugly head.

]]> By: Em http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/2007/11/17/footballshirtculturecom/comment-page-1/#comment-925 Em Mon, 19 Nov 2007 02:08:08 +0000 http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/2007/11/17/footballshirtculturecom/#comment-925 It's so hard to pick just one ... I'm biased because I've always loved the classic Albiceleste stripes, but that Deutscher Fussball-Bund crest is amazing as well. Those and the Dutch kits have to be the best. It’s so hard to pick just one … I’m biased because I’ve always loved the classic Albiceleste stripes, but that Deutscher Fussball-Bund crest is amazing as well. Those and the Dutch kits have to be the best.

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