[Albion] What's your favoured Albion Shirt Style?

[marlowe]

What's your favoured Albion shirt style? In my lifetime they have had four basic styles:

Traditional stripes: (used most years with variations of thickness)



Blue with white sleeves (used for most of the 60s)



All white (used for two seasons in the 70s)



All blue (used for most of the 80s)



What style shirt were they wearing when you first started supporting them and is this how you identify with them?

 

[Wellesley]

Stripes. I like option 2, my first kit as a kid was the all white.

 

[Is it PotG?]

This kit. Always recall the white piping on the shorts, Eddie Spearritt's flowing locks and Barry Bridges sprinting past.

Sweet pipe tobacco smoke, peanut seller, metal half-time score plates etc etc.

Happy days.

 

[marlowe]

Stripes. I like option 2, my first kit as a kid was the all white.

Are you sure you're not trying to retrospectively pass off your Leeds replica kit as an Albion kit? Did Brighton do replica kits in those days?

 

[Bob!]

Started watching in 68

Blue with white sleeves.

 

[strings]

I like the stripes, but I do get tired with the lack of variety in our home kits (here's looking at you, nike).

I would be quite happy with the 'Arsenal' style or a re-hash of the 80's all-blue for a season or two.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Stripes, but I also love the 60s look, blue with white sleeves.

 

[Miami Seagull]

Stripes, but never again with white shorts

 

[marlowe]

I've always been a stripes man myself. That was the kit they were wearing when I first started supporting them. I did inherit a rosette which I think was from the previous season which featured a plaster player in relief painted in the blue with white sleeves shirt.

It wasn't long before I set about repainting it in the stripes using my airfix paints.

I couldn't find a brighton one but it appeared that Stoke were using the same rosette manufacturers as theirs featured exactly the same central plaster figure in identical pose...

 

[RossyG]

Stripes, but I could happily live with option two.

 

[RossyG]

Stripes, but I could happily live with option two.

 

[Wellesley]

Are you sure you're not trying to retrospectively pass off your Leeds replica kit as an Albion kit? Did Brighton do replica kits in those days?

I was very young, I remember receiving the kit and boots and being extremely excited but I seem to remember asking where the badge was and think it might have just been a plain white t-shirt. Really not sure as the oldest I would have been is 5.

 

[Bry Nylon]

The Bukta kit will always be my absolute favourite. Classic, simple, unfussy and a unique fabric akin to chainmail that could shred nipples to a blooded stump before the warm up had even finished.

After that I’ve always has a soft spot for the silky allure of British Caledonian kit. After the austerity of the no nonsense Bukta kit, that all blue temptress was a little slut of a strip

 

[marlowe]

I like the stripes, but I do get tired with the lack of variety in our home kits (here's looking at you, nike).

Perhaps you would like a pinstripe. I was particularly intrigued by this style as it was only used for very short periods during two seasons but never over a whole season. Once in 1958 between August and September and again in 1962
between August and December.



Here is a link to all our shirts over the years:
http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Brighton_and_Hove_Albion/Brighton_and_Hove_Albion.htm

 

[RossyG]

Anyone remember when Albion started producing replica shirts for boys? I seem to recall the adult one began appearing in the mid-to-late-80s but I’m sure they did child versions well before that. Wouldn’t surprise me if they did them in the all-white strip era of the 70s.

 

[studio150]

Just wonder if PB is thinking of ways to have a bumper number of replica shirts sold in the summer. Maybe a 50th anniversary edition of the blue with white sleeves,

 

[RossyG]

I’d buy one.

 

[marlowe]

The stripes is my preferred option but they have to be symmetrical and centralised. This wasn't always the case.

I don't know which couturiers we we were using in the early 70s but they seemed to have a problem centrally aligning the stripes which always jarred with my OCD/sartorial sensibilities...

 

[WATFORD zero]

 

[marlowe]

Just wonder if PB is thinking of ways to have a bumper number of replica shirts sold in the summer. Maybe a 50th anniversary edition of the blue with white sleeves,

This season is the last 50th anniversary of the blue with white sleeves shirt, last used in season 69-70. Next season is the 50th anniversary of the all white strip...
http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Brighton_and_Hove_Albion/Brighton_and_Hove_Albion.htm