Dougstaaarrr classic kits (no requests)

[dougstaaarrr]

Hi everyone, I'm back after my holiday... feeling a lot better after taking a break from everything and putting myself first.
Well today is the 1st of March, which is St. David's Day here in Wales, so this ties in nicely with this next set of kits: _

WALES KITS 2007/08

We'll go in chronological order here - in May 2007 Wales faced New Zealand at the Racecourse, but rather than wear our 1958-style kit, we'd wear a new white strip with assymetrical green and red sleeves. Marketed as the "third kit", it's a strip that FIFA wouldn't allow today due to their pedantic guidelines on sleeve colours needing to be the same, but it was worn for just this one match.

Ironically I was there, having won tickets with my then-GF in a pub quiz, funnily enough
A few months later, with qualification for Euro 2008 more or less already out of our hands after a poor start, Kappa brought out two new strips. They were very similar in style to the third shirt, but had a collar similar to previous Kappa offerings, and reverse stitching. A nice touch here was the shadow print of the dragon from the FAW crest, which had been a feature of some previous Welsh shirts.

Goalkeepers had three strips to choose from. The green and orange shirts were released in late 2007 alongside the home and away kits, whilst the yellow goalkeeper kit had been launched alongside the white third kit. All three goalkeeper jerseys were worn with black shorts and socks.

The kits wouldn't last very long however, as the FAW had signed a deal with JJB Sports, who at the time had the rights to use the Champion brand (more known for Parma's kits in the early 2000's, as well as basketball wear). The new strips would be launched in time for the 2010 World Cup qualifiers.

 

[dougstaaarrr]

WALES KITS 1994-96

1994 was when the fortunes of the Welsh national team completely nosedived. Everyone knows how we came agonisingly close to USA '94, but for a heartbreaking defeat to Romania in the final qualifying match in November 1993, but within a year we'd become a laughing stock.

The new home kit was launched in early 1994, that saw green become the secondary colour. The previous white/green away strip was retained until a very dark green change kit, with an abstract front pattern, was launched in 1994/95. I remember the first game I saw it was for a Euro '96 qualifier in Bulgaria, though on the dodgy TV pictures it almost looked like black.

We had to wear the green kit at home against Moldova too for a qualifer, as they had arrived in their blue and red striped shirts at the time. The referee wasn't happy with the contrast so we had to wear the away kit at home!

Goalkeepers wore standard Umbro designs of the time, with Neville Southall sometimes wearing outfield shorts. He would wear two other Umbro jerseys during this period - a teamwear purple and yellow version of a design worn in the Premier League in 1994/95, and a pink, green and yellow shirt that Umbro introduced that was loosely influence by Jorge Campos' shirts for Mexico.

During this period Wales had several poor results - a galling 5-0 loss in Georgia was a low point, but the most embarassing was a loss to Leyton Orient (!) in a friendly. Seriously, it was a bad time to be a Welsh fan. In 1996, Bobby Gould took over as manager... say no more... and we then switched from Umbro to Lotto in mid-1996.

 

[dougstaaarrr]

MEXICO KITS 1994
Mexico had switched to Umbro in 1991 - wearing an unusual Ajax-style green band on a white shirt as their first-choice in the CONCACAF Gold Cup, but then wore a different design from 1992 onwards. For the 1994 World Cup, the same base designs were retained but saw some tweaks.

The home kit would have the UMBRO marque in text only - the usual double diamond logo got retired for a period during the 1990's, while a new design of shorts with a red triangle would be introduced. The white away kit, featuring an elaborate red "eagle" pattern, would also have similar upgrades. I did note the away shirt had a different collar fastening to the home, with what looked like square popper fasteners.

All eyes of course were on Jorge Campos, who didn't disappoint. He would of course wear several kit designs in the loud, brash colour schemes.
Here's two designs that I do seem to remember from the 1994 World Cup tournament.

Mexico would get through a tight group to face Bulgaria in the second round but lose on penalties... a match remembered for a lengthy delay due to a broken goal support frame, and some extremely questionable refereeing!!

 

[Lucas94NZ]

MEXICO KITS 1994
Mexico had switched to Umbro in 1991 - wearing an unusual Ajax-style green band on a white shirt as their first-choice in the CONCACAF Gold Cup, but then wore a different design from 1992 onwards. For the 1994 World Cup, the same base designs were retained but saw some tweaks.

The home kit would have the UMBRO marque in text only - the usual double diamond logo got retired for a period during the 1990's, while a new design of shorts with a red triangle would be introduced. The white away kit, featuring an elaborate red "eagle" pattern, would also have similar upgrades. I did note the away shirt had a different collar fastening to the home, with what looked like square popper fasteners.

All eyes of course were on Jorge Campos, who didn't disappoint. He would of course wear several kit designs in the loud, brash colour schemes.
Here's two designs that I do seem to remember from the 1994 World Cup tournament.

Mexico would get through a tight group to face Bulgaria in the second round but lose on penalties... a match remembered for a lengthy delay due to a broken goal support frame, and some extremely questionable refereeing!!

He wore one kit at match. The first one you did was worn against Ireland, while the second one was worn against Bulgaria. He had also another one against Italy (with other colour scheme) and one against Norway (which was the inspiration for that pink, yellow and green GK kit Southall wore for Wales in 1994).

 

[dougstaaarrr]

He wore one kit at match. The first one you did was worn against Ireland, while the second one was worn against Bulgaria. He had also another one against Italy (with other colour scheme) and one against Norway (which was the inspiration for that pink, yellow and green GK kit Southall wore for Wales in 1994).

Ahh I see... sure the kit used against Italy should be an easy colour swap.
The kit used against Norway I'll have to make from scratch

 

[dougstaaarrr]

Another work in progress!

 

[dougstaaarrr]

ABERDEEN KITS 1990/91
After 3 seasons, Aberdeen launched a new home strip which had the same fabric pattern as the Ajax kit I made in the earlier post. Curiously the previous home socks were retained, which meant the navy slightly jarred the rest of the strip.

The previous away kit was retained, as were the goalkeeper kits. Aberdeen very nearly won their first league title in six years, but lost a "winner takes all" match at Rangers in the title decider at Ibrox.

 

[dougstaaarrr]

DUNDEE KITS 1992/93
After a number of years with Matchwinner, Dundee switched to Asics for the 1992/93 season - I wonder where they got the idea for that horizonal stripe on their shirts from? Sampdundee?

This set of strips was worn in 1992/93, with Kelly's Copiers as sponsor - sometimes the home kit was worn with the white socks.

 

[Lucas94NZ]

Ahh I see... sure the kit used against Italy should be an easy colour swap.
The kit used against Norway I'll have to make from scratch

Exactly.

 

[dougstaaarrr]

EVERTON KITS 2002/03
Everton celebrated 100 years of top flight football with a set of new Puma strips that featured a special commemorative patch on the right sleeve, which featured an image not unlike that of a certain Dixie Dean. The home and third strips were based on the Puma template introduced by Lazio the season before, but was adopted by several Puma teams in 2002.

The away kit design was a bit more unique however, but whilst the kit was worn with the white home shorts on occasion, the home kit never used the blue shorts from this kit to resolve shorts clashes. Instead a blue version of the home shorts were used instead.

The first-choice goalkeeper kit was an aqua blue shirt, with navy trim - very similar but not quite the same as the common Puma design used at the time. Curiously an indigo strip with navy trim, very similar to the away kit design, was a second-choice, and not very practical - it was only worn a few times. So much was the indigo strip impractical, that when Everton travelled to Manchester City for a league fixture, Steve Simonsen wore the outfield black third strip instead!

Eventually a silver grey version of the aqua blue strip was brought in, paired with the black third kit outfield shorts and socks. Richard Wright wore this kit at Blackburn Rovers, but I can't find what other matches this kit was used in.

The Toffees would have a fairly decent season, finishing 7th.

 

[dougstaaarrr]

Another work in progress... also highlights the issue I mentioned previously about 1990's kits in particular.

Everton's 1996-98 away kit was of course, yellow and black stripes, but depending on the size of the shirt, the stripes closest to the sleeves would either be truncated by the edges where the body of the shirt met the sleeves (e.g. for sizes up to L), or then have another yellow stripe inbetween (for example on XL/XXL).

These days shirt designs are a bit more scaled to the size, so they look similar in design give or take, but years ago the difference was very noticeable. I'm not 100% convinced with the look on this shirt yet so I might do more tweaks especially the back - I'm a bit of a perfectionist you see, but will keep playing about with it.

 

[Kopite97]

How to turn fifa 14 longsleeve minikits into fifa 16 minikits? ty.

 

[dougstaaarrr]

How to turn fifa 14 longsleeve minikits into fifa 16 minikits? ty.

I have no idea sorry, probably best to ask this in one of the general kit/minikit threads on here.

 

[Kopite97]

thank you)

 

[Kopite97]

Sorry to bother mate, but do you have the Premier League 15/16 kit overlay?

 

[dougstaaarrr]

Sorry to bother mate, but do you have the Premier League 15/16 kit overlay?

No sorry, I don't.

 

[dougstaaarrr]

This shirt was sooooooooo 90's!!!

 

[dougstaaarrr]

Bit of a quick question to everyone - I'm also currently working on some adidas kits from 1998, but I've never been able to track an actual picture of the socks from Spain's blue change kit (as per below). I've seen the shorts design, but the only pics I've seen of the kit actually in action were from the 1998 UEFA European under-21 championship, where they wore the blue shirt and shorts against Norway, but with the navy home socks.

I've often seen the kit illustrated in drawings with blue socks featuring white adidas details, but often such drawings have got the shorts in blue with white details without blue side panelling under the adidas trim, which makes me wonder if sometimes such illustrations of socks "abhors a vacuum"... any help would be appreciated!

Also IIRC this kit was originally intended to be the away kit - it was often featured in replica shirt catalogues as being such, though in the World Cup itself, Spain wore white against Nigeria, presumably for contrast... and was then often regarded as the actual away kit thereafter, as the senior team didn't appear to wear the blue kit at all?!

 

[ashh_nocturne]

DUNDEE KITS 1992/93
After a number of years with Matchwinner, Dundee switched to Asics for the 1992/93 season - I wonder where they got the idea for that horizonal stripe on their shirts from? Sampdundee?

This set of strips was worn in 1992/93, with Kelly's Copiers as sponsor - sometimes the home kit was worn with the white socks.

Kelly's is still kicking around in Dundee haha

 

[ashh_nocturne]

Bit of a quick question to everyone - I'm also currently working on some adidas kits from 1998, but I've never been able to track an actual picture of the socks from Spain's blue change kit (as per below). I've seen the shorts design, but the only pics I've seen of the kit actually in action were from the 1998 UEFA European under-21 championship, where they wore the blue shirt and shorts against Norway, but with the navy home socks.

I've often seen the kit illustrated in drawings with blue socks featuring white adidas details, but often such drawings have got the shorts in blue with white details without blue side panelling under the adidas trim, which makes me wonder if sometimes such illustrations of socks "abhors a vacuum"... any help would be appreciated!

Also IIRC this kit was originally intended to be the away kit - it was often featured in replica shirt catalogues as being such, though in the World Cup itself, Spain wore white against Nigeria, presumably for contrast... and was then often regarded as the actual away kit thereafter, as the senior team didn't appear to wear the blue kit at all?!

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Reddit groups may have an answer. I tried Google as well. Most pages don't even recognise this as the away shirt lol