Query Wearing suits to games

[Chuckie357]

Strange thought that I thought a lot of people may have some information on. Curious to know what year roughly or exactly that coaches and players who were in the 22 playing on math day stopped wearing suits in the box and too the game. As we always see players in polo or training shirts and shorts and coaches in media shirts and slacks mostly. Last instance I can remember is Mark Williams in the 2004 GF and also sometime after that possibly Port Adelaide game day players still wearing suits to games in the 2000s.

 

[killer]

tommy hafey never went anywhere near a suit in the 80s

 

[GreyCrow]

There is no definitive time when it happened. Some players still wear suits at times when in the Box or even in the Players area.

Mark Williams 2004 was the last coach I recall. The corporatization of football and sport will see wearing a suit become a thing of the past.

 

[cartel]

I reckon the coaches should start wearing suits again, at least to finals.

 

[joy division]

No sponsors on the suit

 

[Defabs]

No sponsors on the suit

Denis Pagan and the entire Carlton coaching staff I'm pretty sure were suited up until the end of his tenure in mid 2006.

 

[FootyJunkie]

No sponsors on the suit

This is what killed the suit I reckon.

 

[Flandersss]

Rocket Eade coaching he's first match in 05

Chuckie357

 

[emblurr]

Don't know about coaches and players, but my father who is almost 70 said it was very common for spectators to wear suit and tie to the the football.

 

[emuboy]

Don't know about coaches and players, but my father who is almost 70 said it was very common for spectators to wear suit and tie to the the football.

I have seen old photographs at games before World War I and almost all men were wearing suits and hats and the women formal dresses and hats.

Has anyone seen ordinary spectators dressed in suits at more recent games?

 

[isamedthegiants]

I have seen old photographs at games before World War I and almost all men were wearing suits and hats and the women formal dresses and hats.

Has anyone seen ordinary spectators dressed in suits at more recent games?

No, but that's a reflection of the times we now live in.

 

[hilly]

I have seen old photographs at games before World War I and almost all men were wearing suits and hats and the women formal dresses and hats.

Has anyone seen ordinary spectators dressed in suits at more recent games?

More on a Friday night (or any weeknight) I'd have thought.

 

[Del80659]

i thought this would be about the crowds. when did they stop wearing suits and bowlers hats to the footy? did the bulk of "society" in general dress a more upperclass way? was footy watched by more of an upperclass kind of folk?

 

[australianfootball]

Working class men always wore suits, ties, and hats to the footy. The boys were caps. Women always wore a dress and hat.

As in many areas of society, everything changed in the 1960s. Younger men stopped wearing hats and started to grow their hair longer. Significantly, the first US President not to always wear a hat in public was JKF in 1961. He set the trend for the fashion conscious.

 

[isamedthegiants]

i thought this would be about the crowds. when did they stop wearing suits and bowlers hats to the footy? did the bulk of "society" in general dress a more upperclass way? was footy watched by more of an upperclass kind of folk?

I think there's a story about Prince Phillip stepping on to the balcony of Buckingham Palace not wearing a hat in around the 1950s?

That set the wheels in motion for the rest of society to follow. Then pop-culture and The Beatles and hair was in vogue and hats became the exception rather than the norm from the 1960s onwards.