1995/96 retro range - Club Shop

[CrookesBlade]

I liked the green one best

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Still got this one

 

[Keen Blade]

Ah yes, the shirt we played in in Boxing Day 79 and then on relegation to the Fourth Division.
Anybody who buys it, needs shooting.

Do they do any market research ?

 

[Keen Blade]

I actually love them both. Genuinely... cult classics.

They're like shit films you pretend to like because it's meant to be cool to like them. Like Withnail and I

And I thought you were a man of taste !

 

[Aganarama]

£35 thirty years ago.

c.£87 today. So £50 doesn't look too bad...

 

[Aganarama]

Loved the away kit. Disliked the home...but as a kid, still got it (in 90s baggy style so I wager it still fits!). As bad as it was, what followed was a banger!

 

[Revolution]

I've still got the home shirt and it still fits! It was/is crap but it's that crap it's become heroic! It's ironic they've bought it back because the season we had the diamond shirt we were awful too and looked like going down to League One for large parts of the season.

The diamond shirt was scrapped after just one season in the era where shirts were for two seasons! Saying all of that I think it will be better than whatever Adidas serve us next season! I'd have took back the diamond kit for heroic value for one season.

There were two main reasons for scrapping it after one season.

1. It did not sell well.

2. I heard that the players hated the design and also saw the shirt as "unlucky".

Of course, as Aganarama says Avec's 1996-7 effort was brilliant, and has aged very well. It's my all time favourite home shirt and I think a lot of folk agree. It's one of the few I have not given to Revo Jr!

 

[CrookesBlade]

There were two main reasons for scrapping it after one season.

1. It did not sell well.

2. I heard that the players hated the design and also saw the shirt as "unlucky".

Of course, as Aganarama says Avec's 1996-7 effort was brilliant, and has aged very well. It's my all time favourite home shirt and I think a lot of folk agree. It's one of the few I have not given to Revo Jr!

Loved that 97 home shirt but the fit is horrendous on the original ones.

Got one out of the loft the other day, massive sleeves and crop top length.

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

One thing I've never understood about the kits from the 80s and 90s is why we never had the club badge on our shirts.

There was about a 20 year gap from this:



to this:

 

[DaddyDozy]

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The inspiration for my profile picture

 

[HillStreet Blade]

No plans to lose weight then?

I think you will find that most people do not fit the clothes they had from 46 years ago.

 

[Edgar Allan Poo]

I think you will find that most people do not fit the clothes they had from 46 years ago.

Will let you know - when I get to 46!

 

[Davalon]

For me the home shirt is the worst we have ever had, but like it or not it’s part of our history so can see people buying it. The Ajax shirt we had people hate that one but personally I like it and wouldn’t be surprised if they brought that one out at some point because that would also sell imo.

Sheffield Retro Shop brought it out a few years back. Had it bought me for my birthday. Looks ok hung up but a terrible fit. Designed to fit someone with a perfectly oblong body with 90 degree shoulders.

 

[Davalon]

Well fuck me. I've not had the best of weeks for one reason or another and the email landing in my inbox yesterday came at a bad time.

Needless to say as someone who only has interest in retro shirts from a buying perspective, I'm 50 bars lighter after ordering the yellow and purple one.

I have little excuse or justification other than it caught me at a bad time.

 

[Pen nook Blade]

Did anybody order any of these from the 1995/96 souvenir catalogue?

 

[Sportbilly /Detroit Blade]

Did anybody order any of these from the 1995/96 souvenir catalogue?

Not at 50 quid 30 years back!