👕 Chelsea Kits Thread

[Vesper 28,715]

13 minutes ago, Laylabelle said:

Yeah!I think they're trying to had to make them quirky and unique..not everything needs some funky pattern going on.

what I REALLY want is our original colourway for an option

 

http://patrickbaty.co.uk/2014/08/04/chelsea-football-club/

It appears that Chelsea Football Club originally opted for the jersey colour Eton blue with white shorts and black socks with stripes around the top. The club’s first President was Earl Cadogan, an old Etonian, and he already used Eton blue as his horseracing colours.

According to Weatherbys Ltd, the company who provides British horse racing with its central administration, the racing colours of the 6th Earl Cadogan were Eton blue and have been registered to the family since at least the 1890s. As a result the unofficial name Cadogan Blue has been given to Earl Cadogan’s racing silks.

In the only work on the subject we are told that:

“The origins of the colour Eton Blue, are enshrouded in the depths of time. No one knows for sure whence it came. Probably before 1625, when Matthew Say, Eton College Waterman, was provided with “a coat of blew azure” as mentioned in the College accounts.”²

In the Dictionary of Colours for Interior Decoration the following notes are given under Cambridge Blue:

“This ‘Light Blue’ of the English University has from time to time caused some controversy. Cambridge Blue is supposed to be the same as Eton Blue, the latter dating from the fifteenth century, and being adopted by Cambridge in 1836.

The story goes that an old Etonian of the Cambridge crew in the boat race of 1836 supplied the distinguishing colour which was carried by the cox, and the colour was adopted as a permanent colour for the University Boat Club.

Probably some surprise will be occasioned by the colour here featured as Cambridge Blue (shown above), but it is matched to the coloured material supplied by the University outfitters and the Secretary of the Cambridge Boat Club, 1934, as supplied to and worn by rowing ‘Blues’.”

So it appears that Cadogan Blue, Eton Blue and Cambridge Blue were the same colour and that this was the colour of the Chelsea shirt until the 1907-08 season when Royal Blue was adopted.

 

[ulsterchelsea 3,221]

1 hour ago, Vesper said:

what I REALLY want is our original colourway for an option

 

http://patrickbaty.co.uk/2014/08/04/chelsea-football-club/

It appears that Chelsea Football Club originally opted for the jersey colour Eton blue with white shorts and black socks with stripes around the top. The club’s first President was Earl Cadogan, an old Etonian, and he already used Eton blue as his horseracing colours.

According to Weatherbys Ltd, the company who provides British horse racing with its central administration, the racing colours of the 6th Earl Cadogan were Eton blue and have been registered to the family since at least the 1890s. As a result the unofficial name Cadogan Blue has been given to Earl Cadogan’s racing silks.

In the only work on the subject we are told that:

“The origins of the colour Eton Blue, are enshrouded in the depths of time. No one knows for sure whence it came. Probably before 1625, when Matthew Say, Eton College Waterman, was provided with “a coat of blew azure” as mentioned in the College accounts.”²

In the Dictionary of Colours for Interior Decoration the following notes are given under Cambridge Blue:

“This ‘Light Blue’ of the English University has from time to time caused some controversy. Cambridge Blue is supposed to be the same as Eton Blue, the latter dating from the fifteenth century, and being adopted by Cambridge in 1836.

The story goes that an old Etonian of the Cambridge crew in the boat race of 1836 supplied the distinguishing colour which was carried by the cox, and the colour was adopted as a permanent colour for the University Boat Club.

Probably some surprise will be occasioned by the colour here featured as Cambridge Blue (shown above), but it is matched to the coloured material supplied by the University outfitters and the Secretary of the Cambridge Boat Club, 1934, as supplied to and worn by rowing ‘Blues’.”

So it appears that Cadogan Blue, Eton Blue and Cambridge Blue were the same colour and that this was the colour of the Chelsea shirt until the 1907-08 season when Royal Blue was adopted.

 

😬 Maybe not.

 

We had this one in the 80s but couldn't imagine it as a home colour

[Vesper 28,715]

58 minutes ago, ulsterchelsea said:

😬 Maybe not.

 

We had this one in the 80s but couldn't imagine it as a home colour

eeeeek, satin

[NikkiCFC 7,927]

Full 3rd kit.

 

[ulsterchelsea 3,221]

18 hours ago, NikkiCFC said:

Full 3rd kit.

 

Absolute gash, no problem with red at all and never quite understand any complaint with red in our kits but this is a palace looking monstrosity. My kids love the weird, funky coloured, strange designed kits as must kids do. They have both turned their noses up at this so that's a fair barometer of how shit it is

[Vesper 28,715]

3 hours ago, ulsterchelsea said:

Absolute gash, no problem with red at all and never quite understand any complaint with red in our kits but this is a palace looking monstrosity. My kids love the weird, funky coloured, strange designed kits as must kids do. They have both turned their noses up at this so that's a fair barometer of how shit it is

hell yes! it is HORRID

 

[NikkiCFC 7,927]

WAGNH Shirt Week: What is the worst shirt Chelsea have ever worn?

https://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/2020/4/30/21242121/wagnh-shirt-week-what-is-the-worst-shirt-chelsea-have-ever-worn

First one aside, I like the others.

[ulsterchelsea 3,221]

No idea where that's from but actually think that home kit is ok

[Vesper 28,715]

On 30/04/2020 at 6:18 PM, NikkiCFC said:

WAGNH Shirt Week: What is the worst shirt Chelsea have ever worn?

https://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/2020/4/30/21242121/wagnh-shirt-week-what-is-the-worst-shirt-chelsea-have-ever-worn

First one aside, I like the others.

completely agree

the others are good or great

loved this one, super cool

[NikkiCFC 7,927]

2 hours ago, ulsterchelsea said:

No idea where that's from but actually think that home kit is ok

It is just weird having two different numbers on the jersey. Except Alonso 

[milka 3,344]

 

[ulsterchelsea 3,221]

1 hour ago, milka said:

 

Love that home shirt

[whats happening 1,525]

ugh i hate the red color so much. dont want bit near our jersey at all, not even a tiny bit.

[NikkiCFC 7,927]

4 hours ago, milka said:

 

I like these more than previous one.

[Vesper 28,715]

On 15/04/2020 at 4:38 PM, Laylabelle said:

It's like when Arsenal had o2 and Pompy Beanie babies lot. Huge logos just look bad! 

[milka 3,344]

Chelsea in Black  

[Laylabelle 9,347]

On 18/05/2020 at 1:23 AM, Vesper said:

It does look cute in a odd way. Those bloody things spent so much money on them.

Just looks odd. Huge logo and everything else small. To much going on

[ulsterchelsea 3,221]

Anyone any Intel on kit release? Only ask cause it's my eldest wee boys birthday 4th of July and this is ALWAYS his go to present. Not looking likely this year