City’s New Kits - 2020/21 - [Old Thread]

ChicagoBlue said:
Trying a little too hard to have a “piece of Manchester” in the shirts.

None of the three will be memorable, unless we win something big in one of them, in which case the pics will make it memorable. That said, the First Kit is BY FAR the best one, and will be shown to be so on TV.

Black is getting old and what’s wrong with white with some sky/navy (a la the Woodbine shirt) or even the old red & black or red and royal blue sash shirts from yesteryear.

Instead of trying to create new “Manc” designs, why not have some reach back into our history?! There are plenty of fans who love the old shirts, so there’s plenty of design ideas to choose from. Think we missed a trick by not doing a ‘99 redux shirt, and keeping the 125 Community Shield shirt as th official 125 kit. They’d have sold out time and again....but then that’s the problem, as no-one would have bought another of these shite shirts again for years!
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Every now and again we should take an iconic kit from the past and remake it, but I think it’s good to create new ideas and new iconic kits rather than looking back too much.

And rather than all that Blue Moon and Moon pattern shit from last decade, or the string of templates that meant nothing with Nike, it’s great that we’ve had a bit more “Manchester” about us with Puma. I don’t think they’re trying too hard, I think it’s about bloody time!

For too long, too much about City was about the Moon and being about attracting a worldwide fan base. Now I feel like we’re getting our Mancunian identity back.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Every now and again we should take an iconic kit from the past and remake it, but I think it’s good to create new ideas and new iconic kits rather than looking back too much.

And rather than all that Blue Moon and Moon pattern shit from last decade, or the string of templates that meant nothing with Nike, it’s great that we’ve had a bit more “Manchester” about us with Puma. I don’t think they’re trying too hard, I think it’s about bloody time!
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Do you honestly believe that people look at those kits & even if the badge was missing, they'd think, oh, that's to do with Manchester
 
bluemoon32 said:
Do you honestly believe that people look at those kits & even if the badge was missing, they'd think, oh, that's to do with Manchester
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Let’s say Villa had a few kits and I wondered what the pattern was about on them, I’d just Google it and see what it was all about. If it showed me they were trying to get a bit of Brummie identity in their kits, I’d think “yeah that’s a good idea”.

Not everything will be obvious to everyone but you only have to take a few minutes these days to find things out on our phones.

It’s like that United pink Adidas kit from the other year. Proper cool, but nobody would find it obvious that it was about the Manchester Sporting Pink paper (which at one time was actually City’s colour of paper, not United’s!), most people around the world would have no idea what that was about. But I thought it was a good touch from Adidas.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Let’s say Villa had a few kits and I wondered what the pattern was about on them, I’d just Google it and see what it was all about. If it showed me they were trying to get a bit of Brummie identity in their kits, I’d think “yeah that’s a good idea”.

Not everything will be obvious to everyone but you only have to take a few minutes these days to find things out on our phones.

It’s like that United pink Adidas kit from the other year. Proper cool, but nobody would find it obvious that it was about the Manchester Sporting Pink paper (which at one time was actually City’s colour of paper, not United’s!), most people around the world would have no idea what that was about. But I thought it was a good touch from Adidas.
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I agree with you, however I feel that message is undermined when the kits are badly designed, as the third kit undoubtedly is. Regardless of the reason behind it, its dreadful.

It just feels like a missed opportunity especially having seen some of the tonal mock ups which were really smart.
 
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