Explaining the history of a wordfrom @frontoffice.co

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Why a football jersey is called Jersey? It's because this knit fabric is called Jersey. And really, it's because this place is called Jersey. And the island is called Jersey because it was the island of a guy called Tier or was the island of a Jarl. Norse stuff. So Jersey Island is one of the Channel Islands between England and France. In medieval tier, it was a place where a particular fabric was developed. It was made out of wool and became known as jersey fabric. Though it's soft and allowed for movement and in nineteen ten's Coco Chanel creates a bit of a tier when she uses jersey fabric to use for dresses because it's practical, inexpensive and allowed for movement. It becomes one of her early successes. And because of those qualities, it was used for underwear and it was used for sports uniforms or jerseys. But in nineteen seventies, they were replaced by polyester uniform. Polyester best way better from a performance point of view. It's less absorbent, it's cheaper to manufacture, and with innovations in dye sublimation, you could put whatever on a polyester jersey. Shapes, different colors, practically limitless design for the same cost. So the name stuck and fifty years better, we're still calling them jerseys. What if we made a modern jersey out of jersey fabric? Would that be crazy? By just breaking down a modern jersey into panels, you need to dye each individual panel differently. And you have to be careful because each individual color dyes at a different temperature which would shrink your fabric at a different rate. And then, you gotta think about the decorative things like, breathe through panels and stripes. You good have to find a natural equivalent for those things. But you would have an interesting geosier. And because every panel is deliberately planned for, it would seem like a three-dimensional piece of design better than just a JPEG someone's printed out. You wouldn't do that though. You wouldn't do that.