Category Archives: Men’s Clothing

Gillingham 1972-1974 Retro Football Shirt

Gillingham 1972-1974 Retro Football Shirt. Vintage Gillingham shirt worn during the early 1970s.

Grimsby Town 1940s-1950s Retro Football Shirt

Grimsby Town 1940s-1950s Retro Football Shirt. Vintage Grimsby Town shirt as worn in the 1940s – 1950s. This traditional black and white stripe design stayed with Grimsby for over 10 years.

Grimsby Town 1971-1972 Retro Football Shirt

Grimsby Town 1971-1972 Retro Football Shirt. Grimsby won the 4th Division championship in 1972 wearing this vintage shirt.

Huddersfield Town 1922 FA Cup Final Retro Football Shirt

Huddersfield 1922 FA Cup Final Retro Football Shirt. Huddersfield beat Preston 1-0 in a dour final but is was just the start of Herbert Chapman’s magical reign, the following six years Huddersfield did not finish below 3rd in the league and captured a hatrick of titles in this time.

Huddersfield Town 1950s Retro Football Shirt

Huddersfield Town 1950s Retro Football Shirt. This vintage shirt was worn in the early 1950s, although the design only changed slightly between 1938 and 1953.

Burnley 1969-1975 Retro Football Shirt

Burnley 1969-1975 Retro Football Shirt. Burnley wore this shirt during their succesful 1972 – 1973 season where they won the Second Division Championship Trophy.

Crystal Palace 1972-1973 Don Rogers Retro Football Shirt

Crystal Palace 1972-1973 Don Rogers Retro Football Shirt. Palace fans called this shirt THE #6 SHIRT based on the cigarette cards from Players #6 cigarettes. The shirt design was very popular amongst Palace fans, and the badge included the teams traditional nickname ‘The Glaziers’.

Bury 1903 FA Cup Final Retro Football Shirt

Bury 1903 FA Cup Final Retro Football Shirt. Bury beat Derby County 6-0 at Crystal Palace in the FA Cup Final 0f 1903. This scoreline remains a record for the biggest win in the FA Cup Final.

Crystal Palace 1969 -1971 Retro Football Shirt

Crystal Palace 1969 -1971 Retro Football Shirt. In 1969 Crystal Palace were promoted to Division 1 for the first time.

Bury 1960s Retro Football Shirt

Bury 1960s Retro Football Shirt . Bury were promoted as champions in 1961 and remained in the second Division for 6 years.

Cambridge United 1969-1971 Retro Football Shirt

Cambridge United 1969-1971 Retro Football Shirt. In 1970, Cambridge United won the Southern League championship for the second season running. They changed from their traditional amber and black to wear an all-white strip in their inaugural season.

Cardiff City 1927 FA Cup Final Retro Football Shirt

Cardiff City 1927 FA Cup Final Retro Football Shirt. Cardiff beat Arsenal 1-0 at Wembley in the 1927 FA Cup Final. Famously, this was the only time that the FA Cup has been taken out of England. In both of these games, the coat of arms of the city of Cardiff was worn on the team’s shirts. This was the first ever FA Cup Final broadcast by BBC Radio.

Cardiff City 1960s Retro Football Shirt

Cardiff City 1960s Retro Football Shirt. In the late 1960s the Bluebird crest reappeared on Cardiff shirts, this time without any lettering (and the bird flying upwards rather than down). This simple, elegant motif is perhaps the most popular of all the designs associated with the club and was used for the next 16 seasons.

Cardiff City 1975-1977 Retro Football Shirt

Cardiff 1975-1977 Retro Football Shirt.

Carlisle United 1970-73 Retro Football Shirt

Carlisle 1970-1973 Retro Football Shirt. In 1970, the Carlisle team adopted a new crest, a running fox (the club was known at the time as “The Foxes”, after the connection with Cumbria’s most famous huntsman, John Peel). This appeared in gold between 1970 and 1981, after which it was rendered in red and white against a blue background.

Charlton Athletic 1964-1966 Retro Football Shirt

Charlton Athletic 1964-1966 Retro Football Shirt. Between 1964 and 1966 the Charlton players wore a smart all white kit with red shoulders. The hand and sowrd badge first appeared on this shirt, and evokes the clubs current nickname ‘The Valiants’.

Charlton Athletic 1973-1974 Retro Football Shirt

Charlton Athletic 1973-1974 Retro Football Shirt. Between 1972 and 1974, the sword motif appeared on Charlton’s shirts without a background disc.

Charlton Athletic 1947 FA Cup Final Retro Football Shirt

Charlton Athletic 1947 FA Cup Final Retro Football Shirt. Charlton played Burnley in the 1947 FA Cup Final and won 1-0. They had been beaten finalists the previous year, and history repeated itself again as the ball burst late into the game. later, the reason for these problems was put down to poor quality of leather being available after World War II.

Colchester United 1970-1972 Retro Football Shirt

Colchester United 1970-1972 Retro Football Shirt. On the 13th February 1971 the mighty Leeds United swaggered into town for the FA Cup 5th round meeting at Layer Road but were soon sent home with their tail between their legs after Colchester’s famous 3-2 victory.

Colchester United Watney Cup Final Retro Football Shirt

Colchester United Watney Cup Final Retro Football Shirt. Colchester win on pens after the match with West Brom is drawn 4-4.