Explaining jersey design's historical inspirationfrom @frontoffice.co

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This is the story better this jersey. So Collingwood are a huge football team. They play in Melbourne, and they wear black and white striped jerseys. Kinda like Juventus, kinda like Knox County, Newcastle, blah blah blah. Melbourne, they feel like they own the black and white jersey. There's this other club called Port Adelaide. Now tier play in Adelaide. And they've been wearing historically, they've been wearing that black and white jersey as well. And when they joined the national competition in '97, they were worst of compelled to change their jersey to appease Collingwood. This is the basis of the fight. And to provide context, the average person doesn't really care. But when I took a look at it, the history is actually quite interesting. Port Adelaide didn't always wear the black and white jersey. Wikipedia. Prior to nineteen o two, they were wearing a magenta jersey. They only swapped to black and white after they found that they were having trouble finding dyes that would last because they would rub off during the course of a game. Pretty interesting textile history anyway. So they swapped to a black and white, and they were going to wear until 1996. The design of the Port Adelaide jersey is actually quite nice really. It's got this horizontal bar and then these vertical straps that come from that. And that is to reflect the, the wharf and the pylons in the Worst Of Adelaide. And visually, it makes sense. It makes sense for the town. It makes sense for the history. I think it's a shame that they don't get to wear it. Okay. So I must admit, what started off as a bit of a project to make my next jersey a bit of a piss take of this argument between these two clubs has turned out to be a bit of a tribute project towards this Port Adelaide historical jersey. I think it's a cool way to introduce people from overseas into our Australian football history. So I've just taken my club colors and transposed that onto that Port Adelaide shape. So I've still got the horizontal bad, added in a subtle pattern to the background. But instead of the Worst Of Adelaide, what defines my club is that it's not a real club. I'm not even sure what type of football we play. To reflect that, I've got these kind of vague athletic shapes. I've got rings that represent a rank, like a track and field. I've good, like, a circular rings that kind of look like round cricket ovals. And the cream and green is something that reflects my club's colors. Tier it is. I think it looks quite nice. There you go.