idahoblues
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I recently did a little carpentry project and decided to paint said project with City colours, had a helluva time picking the right tone
Sky blue and white hoops were typically worn in 50s. There's photographic evidence for many kits - including some cigarette cards (although some are coloured and not necessarily matching) - and descriptions at time. I do know City wore navy blue with a couple of white hoops in 1890s based on a description, but many images of dark socks have been recorded as navy by modern day writers and do not match what was believed at the time. I think people have often assumed navy when it may well be black. That historical kits site for example shows socks of predominantly navy in late 1940s when other images from that period (and coloured in that period) show predominantly sky blue socks with a much smaller amount of black (or navy). It's an area that needs a lot of research (I'm trying to catch every reference at the moment but it'll take some time).What's the earliest record we have that we were definitely wearing navy socks? I assume there must still be blues alive now who could confirm whether we wore them in the 40s / 50s?
This one for meFor me, the true 'City blue' is the deeper sky blue seen throughout the 70s. As much as I love the new shirt, it still doesn't get close to that colour tbh; whether it's similar to the sky blue of the 60s is for other, older blues to say I guess.
It seems that no matter who produces our kits, the shade of blue opted for is either too light; an insipid, wishy-washy blue; or too dark; the 'lazer blue'.
So it's your fault all our empty seats stick out like a sore thumb :-)
As I said paletone 284c 80% tint
https://www.cam.ac.uk/brand-resources/guidelines/typography-and-colour/palette-and-text-legibility
Whatever it is, I'm proud of the fact that, to my knowledge, we're the only team in the league, apart from Coventry City, to wear it.