Dougstaaarrr classic kits (no requests)

[dougstaaarrr]

@JulesMate007 try this link



I've also edited the earlier post - not sure why it kept uploading at 800 x 800, I've managed to get it uploaded at the correct resolution now.

 

[JulesMate007]

Fixed! Thanks Mate

 

[dougstaaarrr]

something closer to home for me!

WREXHAM KITS 1996/97

Ahhh the 1996/97 season - we were OK in the league but it was the FA Cup run that got the town talking. We reached the quarter-finals of the FA Cup for the first time in nearly 20 years after knocking out West Ham and Birmingham City along the way, only to blow a great chance of reaching the semi-final by losing at Chesterfield (who had a certain Sean Dyche as their captain).

Still think we'd have beaten Middlesbrough had we gone through, they were there for the taking

Anyway, back to the kits... the home kit was very much a remodelled version of the previous home shirt, but with a red crew neck collar, with updated shorts designs and hooped socks, last worn in the 1950's. The white away kit was new, and became the "lucky" cup strip after the West Ham game, as we then wore it for the next 3 ties despite the home sides in each (Peterborough, Birmingham, Chesterfield) all wearing blue. The kits were often mixed and matched, so some games we wore red shirts/black shorts if home teams wore white shorts, and sometimes when changing away we wore all-white.

The rare sky blue third kit was retained as a third choice, it was that rare that I can't even remember the exact shorts and socks designs... all I can remember was that they were navy. I think we used the kit at Brentford in 1996/97, and that was about it!! The goalkeeper strips were new after the previous two years of using Bruce Grobbelaar-designed multicoloured shirts (yes, he really did... EN-S made Zimbabwe's kits at the time).

 

[dougstaaarrr]

EVERTON KITS 1983-85

Everton's greatest ever period? Absolutely... yet at the start of 1983/84 they weren't doing too well, but a huge turnaround saw them reach two cup finals in 1984 - losing the League Cup to Liverpool, but winning the FA Cup against Watford. It was the springboard to even greater success a season later, winning a first League championship in 15 years, and a Cup Winners' Cup win over Rapid Vienna. It was almost a treble too, but for a defeat in the FA Cup final.

Anyhow, Le Coq Sportif took over from Umbro in 1983 and their new kits were a tad unconvential due to the "v-insert" round-neck collar. The away strip was a departure, introducing grey for the first time, a colour Everton have used a number of times since, whilst the more familiar yellow would be used in the third kit.

Whenever Everton used the third kit they wore blue shorts and socks which were the alternate sets for the home kit, but when required to change they wore black shorts and plain yellow socks, notably in the famous 1-0 win at Sheffield Wednesday in 1985.

Note that I've put the full-sized Hafnia logo on the shirts, as worn in non-televised matches. For games on television, the shirts had a much-reduced size due to regulations. Also, the Everton badge (newly introduced in 1983) always had the wreaths and Rupert's tower rendered in gold/yellow, even on the third shirt.

Goalkeepers had a variety of shirts - in 1983/84 they were more of a plain style though Neville Southall had a bit of "guerilla branding" with sponsors Sondico placing their logo on each collar lapel. In 1984/85 he wore a few different shirts but mostly settled on a more jadey green shirt with shadow print, which had a black 3D number 1 on the back... it appeared to be a badge-engineered Uhlsport shirt (Southall wore Uhlsport gloves during that season).

For the Cup Winners' Cup, Everton wore a Chelsea-like blue-blue-white combination, with no sponsor logo due to UEFA rules. As Rapid wore green, Southall wore a red shirt (yes, an Evertonian in a red shirt!!!!), which like the 1983/84 shirt had Sondico branding on the collar. For some reason his shirt had a piece of what appeared to be black electrical tape on the left arm!

 

[dougstaaarrr]

Now then... guess the WIP shirt, level - INSANE*

*sorry, nicked that term from a certain website full of shocking leaks and bad article writing!!!

 

[TonyKroos]

Now then... guess the WIP shirt, level - INSANE*

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*sorry, nicked that term from a certain website full of shocking leaks and bad article writing!!!

Some Aston Villa antique?

 

[dougstaaarrr]

Some Aston Villa antique?

It isn't... but I'll give a clue...
This away shirt was worn in a "mashup" with home shorts and socks in a 2002 league clincher, when really, they should have had a third kit available!

 

[dougstaaarrr]

Well, it was of course Juventus... who in their infinite wisdom, decided on an all-black away strip for 2001/02... but no third kit, which meant when they visited Udinese on the last day of the season, they had to wear the away shirt with white shorts and socks!

Here's a work in progress as I've also done the home kit too... just the goalkeepers and this set is complete

 

[dougstaaarrr]

CHELSEA KITS 1986/87

Now, for one of the most curious set of Chelsea kits ever... and just like the present day, sponsors seemed to stay away from Stamford Bridge.
Chelsea had been wearing Le Coq Sportif kits from 1980. but when their contract was up in 1986, rather than seek a new supplier, they decided to go "in house"... probably the first type of its kind in English football.

The "Chelsea Collection" wasn't just the team strips, but a range of leisurewear too. The kits themselves were fairly basic, with a v-neck collar, shoulder stripe and rather "athletic" looking shorts, and a new club crest would also be launched. The away strip was a radical switch to jade, with silver trim.

Initially the shirts were worn unsponsored, such was Chelsea's struggle to attract shirt sponsorship. The first logo to appear was a curious slimming aid drink known as "Bai Ling Tea", but it was quickly withdrawn when it was found the product was bogus. Chairman Ken Bates had his Grange Farm property (which sold dairy stuff and ice cream, apparently) on the away shirt for one game, before Simod became sponsors for the rest of the season.

Another curiosity was that during the season, the block numbers similar to those worn on the Le Coq Sportif shirts were replaced by outlined Umbro fonts (even with the logo). Indeed, Umbro would supply Chelsea's kit from 1987, so these in-house efforts would last just a single season.

Goalkeepers wore stock Reusch shirts - at the time first-choice goalkeeper Eddie Niedzwiecki ran a sports shop specialising in goalkeeping gear, of which he was a main UK stockist of Reusch equipment. When Simod became sponsors their logo obscured the Reusch logo on the shirt.
The shirts were worn with the outfield shorts, which was standard practice at the time.

 

[dougstaaarrr]

CHELSEA KITS 1985/86

Going back a season... Chelsea's last Le Coq Sportif strips, and again they were were unable to attract a shirt sponsor.

The home strip was a simple all-blue kit, with striped turnover socks, whereas the away kit switched to all-red, after years of wearing yellow change kits. The previous year's white away kit with blue and red details was retained as a third choice, and worn in the inaugural Full Members' Cup (and you thought the Conference League was tinpot.............)

Goalkeepers wore shadow-striped jerseys with the outfield shorts and socks.

 

[Kopite97]

Hello mate! I'm trying to use your kits and only your they have this issue with numbers and names on the back. They're all messed up and I can't change their position using CM16. They used to work properly in the past, what happened?

 

[dougstaaarrr]

Hello mate! I'm trying to use your kits and only your they have this issue with numbers and names on the back. They're all messed up and I can't change their position using CM16. They used to work properly in the past, what happened?

Strange that, considering you'd need to import the images into the RX3 files and then adjust the positions in the kit editor in CM16.
Sorry not much else I can think that could fix it, odd that it's only affecting my kits and not any other authors' kits?

 

[Kopite97]

Strange that, considering you'd need to import the images into the RX3 files and then adjust the positions in the kit editor in CM16.
Sorry not much else I can think that could fix it, odd that it's only affecting my kits and not any other authors' kits?

Got it mate. Extracted a png from a default kit on CM, and used it as a template on photoshop and copied your kits onto it and extracted. Now working properly.

 

[dougstaaarrr]

Got it mate. Extracted a png from a default kit on CM, and used it as a template on photoshop and copied your kits onto it and extracted. Now working properly.

great to hear and glad you got it working

 

[Kopite97]

great to hear and glad you got it working

great work. Love the kits.

 

[dougstaaarrr]

Football last night can get in the bin... if I see a tractor or other agricultural vehicle on the way to work today I am going to scream.
Anyway...

ENGLAND KITS 1988/89

So, in 1987, to be exact, Umbro introduced the new England home kit - pretty much sticking to the white/navy/red colour scheme introduced on the last set of strips, but now with a crew-necked collar with popper fastening. This would be a style that Umbro would widely use from the start of the 1987/88 season at club level. The shirts featured an elaborate shadow pattern, and the shorts featured shadow chequerprint.

At the time, the previous red away kit worn since 1984 remained the away choice, but by 1988, two new change strips would be launched. A new red change kit would come in April 1988, followed very quickly by a sky blue third kit, which was apparently assigned as the away strip for the 1988 European Championship. As it transpired, England didn't wear that sky blue kit for any matches at senior level.

Also - kitmakers, know your differences between replica and match-worn shirts
The sky blue kit was sold as a replica, and had sky blue and white striping inside the navy collar and cuffs. However, the actual match-worn shirts, which did get worn by the U21 team, had RED and white striping inside the navy, as per the home shirt. If anything compare and contrast with the World Cup 1986 kits with the v-neck, they were very much following on from those. So now you know!

The grey goalkeeper kit from the 1986 World Cup was retained as a first-choice initially, before a fluorescent yellow/black zigzag strip became the new first-choice for Euro '88, though Peter Shilton would change to the grey shirt for the first group stage against the Republic of Ireland due to a slight colour clash.

After England's poor showing at Euro '88, the kits were retained, but a blue/navy version of the goalkeeper strip was introduced and became first-choice, though the fluorescent yellow/black shirt was retained as the alternate.

EDIT - Sorry I'd forgot to post the outfield shorts! Have updated below






And with that I believe I've now completed all of the Euro '88 tournament kits

 

[AndaleO]

Is there actually a template for all the patterns in the classic kits, or do you create all the patterns yourself?

 

[dougstaaarrr]

Is there actually a template for all the patterns in the classic kits, or do you create all the patterns yourself?

More often than not I have to do them myself, but sometimes I trace or manipulate actual images of retro shirts usually found on old football shirt websites. A lot of the sites selling old football shirts do tend to have a "flat" image of a shirt laid out, usually at high resolution, so this makes it easier to work from.

 

[Keiner]

what about them?

would love to see I classic kit (sharp sponsor, for ie) of them

 

[dougstaaarrr]

would love to see I classic kit (sharp sponsor, for ie) of them

there may be some coming soon...

I've done 1988-90, 1990-92, 1992/93 full sets.
Done a few others but not full sets as of yet.