When did our blue get so dark?

[wolvesRoos]

On the way home from the last home game I was wearing our 2019 away retro jumper and happened to be sitting next to someone wearing the original nike one from 1999. The difference in the colour blue was marked.

It's the first time I have noticed our blue has got significantly darker. When did that happen? Was it when we went mainly blue instead of mainly white?

 

[marklovesbeer]

 

[Snake_Baker]

I'm just grateful that it hasn't already merged in to a rainbow.

 

[rooboyy]

Different shades of royal blue would be my guess.

Maybe manufacture, material it is made of, etc. contributes to the different colour as well?

 

[Hearts to hearts]

My jumpers from 1991 and 1999 also have very different blue colour stripes - the material is different, so I guess that is a start. Still all royal blue, though.

Also a fair chance the 20+-year-old jumpers have faded a bit.

 

[Friday Night Lights]

Thread title sounds like a Moby song

 

[Liam Boy]

any chance that jumper has spent time in the sun over the 20 years?

 

[LuvtheKangas]

Thread title sounds like a Moby song

We all know exactly which one you're talking about

 

[Gasometer]

Who remembers the scarf that came out mid way through a season that had faded white text and more resembled a Bar beer runner?

I am sure it was late 90s and a Member item

 

[Marstermind]

Not sure about in the last 20 years but the blue from the early to mid 80s was noticeably lighter than it is now.

 

[Sideburns Ahern]

Not sure about in the last 20 years but the blue from the early to mid 80s was noticeably lighter than it is now.

Lighter than it was in the 70s. Today's blue is probably very close to the 70s blue.

 

[Themanbun]

I believe that there are a few different shades of royal blue that are not agreed upon by whoever the hell agrees upon these things.

 

[SlyCunnington]

Lighter than it was in the 70s. Today's blue is probably very close to the 70s blue.

Yep, I've got an old knitted sleeveless fat collar special from the 70's. Color is almost identical to todays strip.

 

[Gasometer]

Yep, I've got an old knitted sleeveless fat collar special from the 70's. Color is almost identical to todays strip.

Fond memories of sweating to death on the sunny side of any ground in Autumn in my woollen long sleeve jumper as a kid in the 70’s

 

[north_lad]

I've got a lot of North s**t and pretty sure none of it is the same shade of blue