When Shorts Were Short S2 E13 - Lindsay Jelley (Admiral Sports Kit Designer)
When Shorts Were Short
English - January 17, 2022 08:10 - 1 hour - 51.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSports History football soccer sport sports premier league history culture art society Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
My guest this week is artist and landscape painter Lindsay Jelley who in another life was a designer and not just a designer, but the designer who through her work with Admiral from the mid-seventies to early eighties, whom she joined as a nineteen-year-old just out of art college, transformed the football replica kits market.
Plus Twitter’s unofficial bookshop @Biggreenbooks are giving away a book. To enter, listen out for the competition details towards the end of the episode.
When Shorts Were Short only concerns itself with what was actually a very narrow window in football history when teams wore, well, short shorts. The podcast will only cover football from 1954, when Umbro made their first England kit with shorter shorts, a design that was widespread within English football by the mid-fifties, to 1992 when short shorts were all but finished as Umbro's baggy shorts for Tottenham's new kit, ahead of the '91 FA Cup Final, quickly caught on.
If the shorts weren’t short, we don’t talk about it.
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Show Notes
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