Pitch perfect: why vintage football shirts are a style game-changer

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A heady mix of Drake, Liam Gallagher and nostaglia is moving the goalposts when it comes to classic kits

Just like fashion, football seasons are primed around newness. As well as players, rivalries and bids for the title, three new kits arrive for each Premier League club every year. But the rise of the vintage football shirt market means this could be changing. Increasingly, fans are moving through the turnstiles on match day in old shirts.

They may have got lucky, by finding one in a local charity shop, but most of these are sought-after; some particularly hallowed shirts are worth thousands of pounds and hyped up as sacred objects. Online, the world of vintage football shirts sees many young men (it is mostly young men) debate the intricacies of different seasons, graphics and even the sponsors that appear across the shirts.

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from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2019/oct/31/pitch-perfect-why-vintage-football-shirts-are-a-style-game-changer

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