From Sportswear to Leisurewear: The Evolution of English Football League Shirt Design in the Replica Kit Era
@article{Stride2015FromST, title={From Sportswear to Leisurewear: The Evolution of English Football League Shirt Design in the Replica Kit Era}, author={Chris Stride and Jean Williams and D Moor and Nick Catley}, journal={Sport in History}, year={2015}, volume={35}, pages={156 - 194} }
The football shirt is of iconic significance, defining a club's visual identity through its role as sporting uniform and fan identifier, providing a canvas for commercial interactions and increasingly acting as the focus of nostalgia and collector culture. In this article we focus on the football shirt's extension from sportswear to a replica product worn as cross-generational leisurewear. We first consider how a replica's authenticity, its principal attribute, exists in objective, constructive…
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