It seems that over the past couple of years it has been more and more common to see clothing with a sports team logo that is a color other than that team’s traditional colors. For example, here in Chicago a present-day Cubs hat or shirt should be some combination of blue, red, and white, Sox should be black and white, and Bears should be orange and blue.
It always doesn’t look “right” to me when I see a hat or shirt that is not a team’s standard colors. For example, yesterday I saw a NY Yankees cap that was all white, and my kid has an Illinois State t-shirt that is green and white (traditional colors Red/Black/White.)
Is this trend widely spread beyond Chicago?
I’m not a huge sports fan and don’t think I currently own a single piece of sports logo-wear, but it always seems to me that sports gear should be in the teams official/traditional colors. The colors might be unattractive on yu, but that’s too bad. In other words, if you go to Georgia Tech and want to show loyalty, you are going to look like a bumble bee. And if you attend UofI you will quickly learn that orange is a color that very few clothes should be made.
Unfortunately, here in Pittsburgh, we’ve been deluged by a flood of sports gear in pink. It’s usually stuff for the Steelers, but I think I’ve seen things for the Pirates and the Penguins. Pittsburgh’s colors are black and gold. Now, I’ve never been particularly feminine or fond of pink anyway, so that affects my point of view. I don’t care. It’s still awful and something I’d never own.
Those pink Roethlisberger jerseys annoy me to no end. I’m also not a fan of this throwback stuff. Everyone’s wearing blue Crosby jerseys now. Come on, we haven’t worn blue regularly in 30 years and when we did, we sucked. Can we please stick to black and gold?
Didn’t all this start with Fred Durst and his red Yankees hat?
hehe. The last time the Steelers won the Super bowl (two years ago?) my daughter wanted a pink Ben Roethlisberger jersey. I spent several days searching, but finally found one.
That’s all right. I may have bought my niece a pink Polamalu shirt. However, she is much more feminine than I am and she’s a little girl. For little girls, I will grudgingly make exceptions, but not for grown women.
I’m not really one for wearing my team’s colors unless I’m actually going to the game. I mean, seriously, I’m all grown up now. And if you’re going to the game it’s pointless to NOT wear the team colors because the entire idea is for the crowd to all look like they’re wearing the same colors.
That said, of course this is widespread beyond Chicago. Pro sports apparel is an absolute plague in the world of common fashion right now; you’re going to see every conceivable sort of pro sports related crap being worn by someone or other.
I"ll make exceptions for neutral colors, such as white or gray. For example, Arizona State and Florida State both use a dark red and gold. I’m fine with shirts in white and gray in those situations.
I remember seeing the Yankees apparel in all sorts of weird colors. Bright yellow? Red? Then other teams followed. I detest these.
I don’t mind throwback apparel as long as it is a jersey with a former player.
I was at an outdoor food festival in 2004, and there was a booth/trailer that had fruit dipped in chocolate. There were four or five girls working the counter, and they all had matching white-and-yellow outfits with yellow Yankees caps. I asked one of them if they were all Yankees fans and she had no idea what I was talking about. I think the boss just wanted everyone in matching yellow hats.
And it’s not just Chicago. The food festival was in Nuremberg.
Absolutely pisses me off to no end. I’ve seen camoflauge colored baseball hats for christs sake.
I’ve always been put off by the prevalance of the sports-gear-as-fancy-clothes style of the black crowd. Sure you see it with teenagers of any color, but I see masses of 30+ year old black men running around with their fancy, flat brimmed camo yankees hat, bluetooth headset and their oversized McNabb jersey or whatever every single day. They wear these anywhere and everywhere. It looks terrible and tacky and gives the impression that the person wearing them has yet to grow up.
I think the explosion of these multicolor hats is to meet the need of that market so they have a hat for every occassion :rolleyes:.
The Sox have Green uniforms as an alternate color. They wear them on St Patrick’s Day and this year when they honored the Celtics. They’ve used them for years as official gear. Do other teams have one alternate uniform as well?
The pink gear is certainly a Red Sox thing, but I’ve grown so used to it in Boston.
I have a fool’s hat in absolute authentic Packer yellow and green-but it has a Baltimore Ravens logo on it. I think it was a mistake at the factory, there was a bin full of them, all brand new, at Goodwill one day. I bought it for a buck. I bet they were donated because they were a bad run at the factory.
Oh, you’re talking about “stuff with sports logos”
I thought you were talking about “copies of teams’ uniforms.”
In Spain, the stuff with logos is in team colors, but some real big teams manage to sell copies of their “second uniforms” along with those of the first. I’ve only seen this for Barça and Real Madrid, but then, I don’t even know what color my own team’s second uniform is right now!
There’s matches where every fan out there is wearing the same colors (Osasuna and Mallorca have identical first uniforms, to name one case), you need to figure out whose fans are sitting where by how they react to play
Georgia Tech colors are old gold and white. So not quite a bumblebee. Besides, we’re the Yellowjackets.
But on your other points, I agree wholeheartedly.
I think it’s awful. I like pink; I look good in pink. But I’m an Indians fan, dammit, and the Indians’ colors are red, white, and blue. I make my choice.
A couple of weeks ago when I was in Boston, I thought I’d buy my husband a Harvard jersey. I ended up not doing it because the really nice ones were too pricey, but the school shop also had Harvard shirts in PINK. An abomination, I tells ya.
Word. We went to a game at the Jake, er, Progressive Field hate the new name recently and saw lots of Tribe gear in different colors. Also a lot of Yankees gear for sale outside - seemed to be mostly pink or earth tones.
Eh. MLB and the like are making a forture with that stuff, so who cares. They started doing items in pink to appeal to the female fans, and were rewarded by said females buying out the store, thus making it a sound financial decision. As for the camo gear…the Padres wear camo every spring for one game in honor of the military. I think the uniforms look sharp. But as always in sports, money talks.
