A football shirt badge of honor
Print Edition
FOOTBALL shirts are not just symbols of team allegiance: the colors, designs and styles are being reappraised as icons of sartorial cool at an exhibition in London.
“The Art of the Football Shirt” takes visitors through 180 different football shirts, from classics to strange strips that pushed the boundaries, and jerseys that crossed over into fashion, music and politics.
It shows how plain shirts gradually gave way to a tidal wave of graphic design experiments, with art school graduates let loose with shapes and colors.
Curator Neal Heard, who owns 70 shirts in the collection, said: “These things are fashion items now. I call it the ‘basketball-isation’ of football — it’s becoming more about lifestyle and less about the tribal resonance of a team’s shirts.”
He compared modern football jerseys to New York Yankees caps — a symbol worn by many people without any allegiance to, or knowledge of, the baseball side.
The free exhibition, running from Wednesday to Thursday, is part of the Jacket Required menswear trade show at the Old Truman Brewery.
- About Us
- |
- Terms of Use
- |
-
RSS - |
- Privacy Policy
- |
- Contact Us
- |
- Shanghai Call Center: 962288
- |
- Tip-off hotline: 52920043
- 沪ICP证：沪ICP备05050403号-1
- |
- 互联网新闻信息服务许可证：31120180004
- |
- 网络视听许可证：0909346
- |
- 广播电视节目制作许可证：沪字第354号
- |
- 增值电信业务经营许可证：沪B2-20120012
Copyright © 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.
