RFC Classic Kit

[strap]

I'm helping Martin Brailli out with a project he's doing, and we need to get a feel for what the fans think is RFC's "classic" kit.

I've been onto the Historical Kits site http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Reading/Reading.htm and with the modern era penchant for changing kits almost yearly, there are too many to list in a poll.

So we'd be grateful if you would spend a minute checking the site out via the link, and just list your top 3 "classic" RFC kits. If you use the year references on that site it would make our lives a bit easier!

If you want to add why you feel the kit/kits you have chosen are "classic", so much the better.

For what it's worth, Martin's selection is 69-74 and 74-76. Whilst I started watching RFC in 1969 too, I just think the thin hoops aren't great, and personally would go for the 77-78 version. For some reason, I also liked the 81-82 and 82-83 version, with the blue hoop missing from the shoulder. Bit similar to today's kit, but it just doesn't look right with no blue rouind the back.

It would be great to get as many peoiple's views as possible. Many thanks in advance.

[AthleticoSpizz]

74-76

76-77

and the iconic Courage one of the successful 1985/86/87 Branfoot era



if you are fishing for ideas for a future kit?........

360 degree hoops, white shorts, white socks with two blue hoops please

[blindedbythelights]

81-82 or 95-6 for me

it should be a white shirt, with blue hoops, white shorts, white socks with blue trim

[Gordons Cumming]

1969 -70 for me.

Start of a long relationship..................

[Svlad Cjelli]

76-77 for me - simplicity itself, and the last "pure" football kit before marketing men and replic shirt marketeers got hold of things.

Then the 78-79 Bukta kit.

But won't this just reveal that people love the kit that the team wore when they started watching them?

[AthleticoSpizz]

76-77 for me - simplicity itself, and the last "pure" football kit before marketing men and replic shirt marketeers got hold of things.

Then the 78-79 Bukta kit.

But won't this just reveal that people love the kit that the team wore when they started watching them?

well that covers a 13 year spread for me

and I supported them before my first choice



so probably/possibly.....no

[AthleticoSpizz]

....and of course...we dont know the nature of this "project"

[Ian Royal]

Assuming home only...

55-57 - classic look
94-95 - my first game and again a classic look
96-98 for something a little more quirky.

Honourable mentions to 2008-9 and 2011-12, which would be selected if it was for front view only.

Another in for the all round hoops blue hoops on a white shirt, with white shorts (blue markings of some sort) and white socks with blue tops or hoops. Quite like a collar too, but it has to be right and it isn't essential.

[BanffshireRoyal]

48-53. The one I first learned to love.

And please, please, please can we have hoops that are hoops and not the half-hoop we have now.

[southstand67]

1979-81 kit is my favourite, this season's is pretty close to that from the front - as for the away it would have to be any of the 1984-89 away kits.

[AthleticoSpizz]

1965/69...I guess the question has to be asked....why the sky blue?

amongst the decades of hoops?


Please Mr Bearded club historian?

[wolsey]

1969 -70 for me.

Start of a long relationship..................

Me too

[Friday's Legacy]

see avatar. i would love a retro remake of this.



having said that, i would prefer this to my current avatar as well if anyone is able to size it as per my current one and private msg me.

[The Rouge]

Anything from 76-81 for me, although to be fair if you took the current kit and made the hoops go all the way round I would be ecstatic.

[Barry the bird boggler]

65-69, 81-83, 53-54

The older kits are much better than the newer as they're simpler and not full of stupid flashes and trim and ridiculous emblems everywhere.

What about doing the same for away kits?

[marcusopp]

I love stuff like this (loser!)
1. 1987-89ah
2. 2008-09c
3. 1994-95b

I totally agree with the comments regarding changing our kit every season.
It shouldn't be allowed.

Favourite away kits.....
If anyone chooses our 3rd kit from the 94-95 season they're mad! (That's the pseudo partick thistle red and yellow hoops for the new fans).

[Fox Talbot]

1965/69...I guess the question has to be asked....why the sky blue?

amongst the decades of hoops?


Please Mr Bearded club historian?

I don't have a beard but here goes anyway.

Coventry had jsu t been promoted and were getting famous, having changed to sky blue. The Reading board thought this was the secret of their success so copied it. There was a bit of a fashion for same shirts / shorts aroud then - Liverpool went to red shorts in 1964/5 I think, Wolves to old gold shorts not long after. Reading couldn't go to hoops shorts so in order to look modern ...

We also tried Friday night football in the 1960s for a similar reason - fashionability.

[Mid Sussex Royal]

1965/69...I guess the question has to be asked....why the sky blue?

amongst the decades of hoops?


Please Mr Bearded club historian?

I don't have a beard but here goes anyway.

Coventry had jsu t been promoted and were getting famous, having changed to sky blue. The Reading board thought this was the secret of their success so copied it. There was a bit of a fashion for same shirts / shorts aroud then - Liverpool went to red shorts in 1964/5 I think, Wolves to old gold shorts not long after. Reading couldn't go to hoops shorts so in order to look modern ...

We also tried Friday night football in the 1960s for a similar reason - fashionability.

We could have tried hooped shorts - I am sure one season Brighton had striped shorts and looked like tesco bags

[Mid Sussex Royal]

Best kit in my view is the traditional narrow hoops 1969 -1977 with white shorts and white socks with 2 blue rings. QPR's this season isn't bad.

[strap]

....and of course...we dont know the nature of this "project"

Blimey, and I thought I was the world's most paranoid conspriacy theorist!!!!

Nothing sinister, he's just collating information for a slightly off the wall book on miscellaneous things RFC - a sort of "things you didn't know you didn't know" about RFC.

So don't feel shy about offering your views - he just needs a collective view on what we all think of as the "classic" RFC kits of the past.

Again, thanks for all and any views contributed.