Pellshek
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- Dec 30, 2015
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Slightly counter-intuitive fact about kit design: the more individual a given shirt design or template, the less authentically representative of the club/colours/crest it is.
Take our famous Hummel one with the arrows across the chest, or the UA one with the sash across the front. Those arrows and that slash didn't belong to Spurs; they belonged to the manufacturer. The elements we as Spurs had reason to call ours were the colours and the crest. Embellishments beyond that are not intrinsic to Spurs.
As such, a generic shirt that's the same as dozens of other teams, only distinguished by our colours and badge, is in fact more representative of Spurs than one embellished by the ideas of a given manufacturers' design department.
Take our famous Hummel one with the arrows across the chest, or the UA one with the sash across the front. Those arrows and that slash didn't belong to Spurs; they belonged to the manufacturer. The elements we as Spurs had reason to call ours were the colours and the crest. Embellishments beyond that are not intrinsic to Spurs.
As such, a generic shirt that's the same as dozens of other teams, only distinguished by our colours and badge, is in fact more representative of Spurs than one embellished by the ideas of a given manufacturers' design department.
