Mero, in the interview you did for Costa's website, you maintain that Essendon have the best jumper. You say it's individual and undeniably Essendon. But it isn't. Perth Demons have worn the design for a very long time as well. I believe that Fitzroy had the best jumpers – whether it was the maroon and navy, or the lighter red and blue. No other club (bar the Bears-Lions, obviously) emulated them. They owned the design. And it still looked fantastic. So aside from Essendon, what's the best jumper design ever? And what 'traditional' guernsey is the lamest?
So you're saying that a jumper that someone else likes so much that they adopt as their own automatically means the original cannot be the best?
That makes no sense to me.
Essendon were the first team to wear a Sash in 1875. They were called the Sash Wearers for quite a while.
For the longest time it was unique. South Melb. didn't adopt a sash until 1907, and Richmond in 1914.
Perth adopted the sash in 1948. That's less than half the time Essendon has worn it.
As far as Fitzroy, Subiaco started with all Maroon, the same as Fitzroy, but they went down the path of having Gold as their secondary colour where Fitzroy went with Blue.
I guess my perspective is more based on the historical aspects as much as what I can remember personally.
However, if I had to say which design from history I like apart from Essendon, I would say Footscray's jumper they had, and returned to this year. In 1901 they had a competition to create a new jumper for Footscray as the players were wearing a combination of three different designs. They received 10 entries and it appears that none of them were chosen and the Executive came up with their own. (Sound familiar?)
However, it's the design I've always thought was the best of the rest.
Of the others, I am not a big fan of stripes and hoops, so I would say Richmond, Carlton and StKilda re the other two whose jumpers I like. I never liked South because they always looked too White. And of course, the leaves Fitzroy, which I always liked as well, and would probably sit behind Footscray all things considered.
As far as the lamest, I would fall back on the stripes, and then when Hawthorn went all Gold with Brown stripes, that probably made it the worst for me.