After narrowly missing out on the play offs for two seasons running, the Tiger Nation hoped it would be a case of third time lucky for City in 1995-1996.

Ditching kit maker Pelada and their vile interpretation of tiger striped shirts, the club changed manufacturers, inviting Burnley based sportswear firm The Glory Years, who made Rochdale, Brighton, and Chesterfield’s kits as part of their ‘Super League’ brand, to design and make the Tigers attire for the next two somewhat eventful seasons.

Our new togs were throwbacks of sorts, visually similar to the to the heavy cotton drill garb worn by City in the late 1940’s , The Tigers wore sky blue and white as a post-war austerity measure as amber dye was deemed too expensive, the club returned to wearing amber and black in 1947.

Like that post-war kit the new strip was made up of plain amber shirts, black shorts and amber socks. Jerseys were not used to advertise the wares and services of sponsors back then of course, but compared to the tiger-skin shirted excesses of the previous four years, the new kit was a much more traditional effort.  (more…)