I certainly prefer the original dark grey/charcoal shirt colour.
It seems to have a touch of class that is missing from the newer black versions.
Black shirts are very common. Is there any chance of reverting to the earlier colour?
I think that's just Leo adding some class
Anyways.....short answer No !!
Changing to the new shirt was bought about for a few reasons, breathability and odour retention that didn't make the previous shirt bike friendly was a major reason..... a few companies were using the old grey shirt (IGA & BWS) that we know of....we where having badge issues as they where an iron on patch that also increased the manufacturing/handling time....and had designed a new embroidered club logo to decrease handling time and cost of manufacture (new shirts cheaper to members than old
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The colour grey wasn't offered in the range by the new shirt manufacturer. We considered black as an potential issue in relation to being absorbent of the heat from the sun but this got far outweighed by the fact that we were only really in the sun when covered by our bike jackets and the breathability of this material voided any heat issue.
Black was considered part of our club base colours and really made the Orange pop out
We did use a very dark navy blue for the ladies shirts to have a small difference and allow them a different look but does blend well with the black when the shirts in a group.
I could tell you that the black was also because Bikers wear black
but when you look around society and what blokes wear most often......it's Black.
The other reason that Pockey mentioned when first picking the shirt and colour was black has a slimming effect on the male body.....WHAT IS SHE SAYING ABOUT US !!!!
Ok I'm off to the tread mill
Back to Jackets now and thanks for the question JC, I hope this answered it for you
