Socks have generally been the same colour as the shirts but with White/Navy Blue/Maroon tops. But occasionally the Navy Blue or Maroon has taken over as the main sock colour.
Yes but that was Gorton! Not St Marks (Maroon?) and not Ardwick!Didn't we start out when Saint Marks in a black kit with a big crusader style crucifix as a badge?
Yep. I was only thinking about my lifetime.That bit is simply not true, mate.
We've worn navy socks for over 80 years, far more than any other colour.
http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Manchester_City/Manchester_City.htm
Where the Etihad now stands or near it for the pedants, Clayton Aniline made the base pigment for textile dyes but mainly the blue spectrum. Copper-phthalo-cyanine being the active agent. Textile dyers would then tailor it to their specs, Cortaulds for one, Ila another. Various middle-men would merchant the powder throughout the world, the point I am laboriously trying to make is that each dealer could call it whatever they felt like, furthermore it was produced in batches and therefore was subject to "tolerances" . Not only that the end result was reliant on the substrate it was being used on to be consistent in colour and absorbency.
Ultra-violet exposure then plays a part as a whitening agent. Sky blue is a generic term, the colour of the sky is dependent on many factors, Cambridge blue is not a Bsi patented protected afaiaa so when all is said and done .......... city blue is good for me even though it has been linked to the masonic movement
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So it's your fault all our empty seats stick out like a sore thumb :-)I have a good tale to tell related to Citys colour. Back in the day when I was working on the stadium I went to a meeting and the architects for the stadium wanted white grey and yellow seat colours in a random pattern. Not a single blue seats I kid you not.
I was a spy in the camp for city working for Laings and the night we played Ipswich and it pissed down and got called of I was with Bernstain and Mcintoh and showed them the drawings of the seats. They were appalled. Within a week they had patented a colour called lazer blue which is the colour of our strange kit colout at the time. I drove down to south wales to Pel Stadium seating and was responsible for choosing the colour of our seats that are in the stadium now. took with me a spare seat from the bit between the Noth Stand and the Maine Stand and I went down with my Dad and ex mrs for the company and we chose the best match between us.