TWOCHOICEStom
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** Warning, massive kit-geekery ahead **
So, every year I get down a bit of a photoshopping rabbit hole having a play to see what sort of kits we could get each season.
To get a decent prediction you need a few things:
- This season's "templates"
- What other Nike teams have got
- The club's strategy
First off, let's talk about templates.
Every kit we get is a template. There are degrees of customisation, but every kit will be taken from a base structure with interchangable collars, custom patterns, colours etc.
In recent years, we've got a "fully custom" home shirt, where we've got a break in the stripes, an underlying pattern, our own colours etc. But our away kit has been the same 15 quid shirt straight out of the catalogue with a crest and Amex logo slapped on it. Last year though, they made a bit of a change with us and some other teams by offering the catalogue jobby but in custom colours. I'd imagine that trend will continue this year.
The main template being used is the same one the England kit was based on, it's got those lightning bolts down the sides and looks like everyone is getting it but with slightly different collars/sleeves.
What's around now:
With that in mind...
Home Kit
Structure: We had a collar this year, they're divisive. We've have v-necks in the most recent seasons. So I think we'll go for the round collar above.
Design strategy: We've had all blue this season, so next year it will either be a traditional return to the stripes OR something really out there and bonkers.
Colours: I love the red numbers. But yellow is all over our branding at the stadium so maybe red will take a backseat for a while.. I know it's a bit . It'll either be just blue/white or blue/white/yellow.
So here's a couple guesses:
Away kit
Structure: Bog-standard teamwear kit out of the catalogue.
Design strategy: Assuming we'll keep our yellow as a third shirt, it won't be yellow. We've had black recently, red would be a possibility based on our historic away kits and a chance to contrast against the blue/white and yellow. But I think we might go for a colour we've used a fair bit in our digital marketing stuff. That nice, seafront-railing turquoise colour. I took one of the above kits and I would be pretty happy with that. Or a bit of that colour and a black version.
Park Derby III template
So that's it from me. Would love to see some better photoshops than mine based on what we could really get. What do you reckon?
So, every year I get down a bit of a photoshopping rabbit hole having a play to see what sort of kits we could get each season.
To get a decent prediction you need a few things:
- This season's "templates"
- What other Nike teams have got
- The club's strategy
First off, let's talk about templates.
Every kit we get is a template. There are degrees of customisation, but every kit will be taken from a base structure with interchangable collars, custom patterns, colours etc.
In recent years, we've got a "fully custom" home shirt, where we've got a break in the stripes, an underlying pattern, our own colours etc. But our away kit has been the same 15 quid shirt straight out of the catalogue with a crest and Amex logo slapped on it. Last year though, they made a bit of a change with us and some other teams by offering the catalogue jobby but in custom colours. I'd imagine that trend will continue this year.
The main template being used is the same one the England kit was based on, it's got those lightning bolts down the sides and looks like everyone is getting it but with slightly different collars/sleeves.
What's around now:
With that in mind...
Home Kit
Structure: We had a collar this year, they're divisive. We've have v-necks in the most recent seasons. So I think we'll go for the round collar above.
Design strategy: We've had all blue this season, so next year it will either be a traditional return to the stripes OR something really out there and bonkers.
Colours: I love the red numbers. But yellow is all over our branding at the stadium so maybe red will take a backseat for a while.. I know it's a bit . It'll either be just blue/white or blue/white/yellow.
So here's a couple guesses:
Away kit
Structure: Bog-standard teamwear kit out of the catalogue.
Design strategy: Assuming we'll keep our yellow as a third shirt, it won't be yellow. We've had black recently, red would be a possibility based on our historic away kits and a chance to contrast against the blue/white and yellow. But I think we might go for a colour we've used a fair bit in our digital marketing stuff. That nice, seafront-railing turquoise colour. I took one of the above kits and I would be pretty happy with that. Or a bit of that colour and a black version.
Park Derby III template
So that's it from me. Would love to see some better photoshops than mine based on what we could really get. What do you reckon?
rolleyes
