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1904-05 Home player shirt long sleeve  -  not now good image



1904-05 Home player shirt long sleeve (season 1907-08)  -  image with site facebook.com/UnofficialLFCMuseum

  Left to right: 1st image, photo Alex Raisbeck (Dec 1905). 2nd image, Alex Raisbeck cigarette card (1906), 2nd image, Gordon Hodgson cigarette card (1907), 2nd image, Alex Raisbeck cigarette card (1908). Have else team photos for different seasons, 1904-05 to 1908-09, but on team photo difficult to see which right collar was on Liverpool home shirt.



  On team photo Liverpool FC (1904-05) we can to see on players in new style home shirts. Below you can to see shirt collar with lace-up. (image with site lfchistory.net)

 

                              

  On fragment team photo Liverpool FC (1908-09) we can to see on players Tom Chorlton and Ernest Peake the collar mandarin.

  ABOUT THE KIT 1901/09

  The onset of the 1901-02 season saw the introduction of new red shirt. Consisting of ribbed material, the collar was mandarin with a single button-through placket, through which a lace could be worn. The shorts were, white “baggies” (know as knickerbockers) and the socks were red (this description home shirt of the season 1907-08 and 1908-09).
  The away strip was predominantly white with a red collar and shoulder area. The collar was mandarin with lace and red cuffs with pure white baggie shorts, and black socks.
  Incidentally by the time of the 1907-08 season, black socks were used for both the home and away kits and incorporated two white bands across the top. ("Tops of The Kops" Peter Crilly)

  In 1891 the Football League required member clubs to register their colours for the first time and no two teams were allowed to wear similar shirts. The following year, when the Second Division was formed this rule was relaxed but home teams were now required to have a spare set of white shirts, which could be used if colours clashed. (historicalkits.co.uk, David Moor)

Players, and later clubs, generally bought their playing kit from local sports outfitters. The kits were often locally made by the outfitters or small garment manufacturers. Burta, founded in 1879, were the first mass manufacturer of football kits, and remained so until Humphrey Brothers Clothing were formed in 1920 in Wilmslow, Cheshire. In 1924 they became Umbro. Although these two Companies came to dominate the market they relied upon distributors and the local sports outfitters rather than supplying clubs direct.   Now can write, what with season 1910-11, Liverpool FC to buys equipment for club in Jack Sharp sport shop.