Orient Shirts - is this a real thing?

spen666 · Post by **spen666** » Thu Apr 18, 2019 10:39 am

69Chevy wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2019 9:18 am .....
Also... Robbery footage shows us in blue shorts for 66/67 .....

Were times that hard back then that the club had to resort to robbery?

Not sure carrying out robberies in club kit was the best way of avoiding detection

69Chevy · Post by **69Chevy** » Thu Apr 18, 2019 12:52 pm

All robberies in the 60's ( including The Great Train One) were carried out in club colours - Criminals soon worked out that dressing as an Orient player meant that there was much less chance of being identified.

69Chevy · Post by **69Chevy** » Thu Apr 18, 2019 12:53 pm

LeytonOstone wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2019 10:20 am
69Chevy wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2019 9:18 am
BengeO wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2019 3:10 pm Have a look at www.kitclassics.co.uk if your interested in all the kits from 1881 to 2019.
Nice site but odd that they show the sky blue braces away and not the red strip.
Also... Robbery footage shows us in blue shorts for 66/67 ( site shows white shorts)
Can someone confirm when we officially became Orient? - site shows it as 66/7 but all progs for that season are branded Leyton Orient ( was the change mid season perhaps?)
I got no sleep last night
...and not forgetting the inconsistency of showing some seasons away kit but not others...and wheres this seasons commemorative Clapton O kit that we wore against Bromley?

I had the all red kit back in 69 - it was purchased for me from either the Co-op Stratford Broadway or McNeils sports shop at Harrow Green (sorry memory isnt what it used to be - and that was never brilliant). The badge was already embroidered on - it came as an additional printed cut out and sew on 'patch'...and that was definitely a yellow segment, not amber.

"My lads are out".

" No Shooters" Much like the Orient attack of the mid 60s

Article_50 · Post by **Article_50** » Thu Apr 18, 2019 1:22 pm

LeytonOstone · Post by **LeytonOstone** » Thu Apr 18, 2019 3:30 pm

Article_50 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2019 1:22 pm

yes thats the drab kit and badge that adorned me on Wanstead Flats in 1970 - it was amazing the way that by 1977 we had a great kit and great new badge to match

69Chevy · Post by **69Chevy** » Thu Apr 18, 2019 4:01 pm

We only win Championships in plain kits
Blue with white v neck 56/7 ( no badge)
or all red with P&O Badge 69/70
Small programmes also aid promotion.
If the Braintree game is key, please can we carry on the start made with the recent semi final retro programme design with the size of a 61/2 or 69/70. It may just get us over the line.

Article_50 · Post by **Article_50** » Thu Apr 18, 2019 5:49 pm

The red shirts from the 68/69 season weren't cotton (eg the Bukta shirts at the time) but a man made fibre... does anyone remember this?

Fatbaz · Post by **Fatbaz** » Thu Apr 18, 2019 6:12 pm

Article_50 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2019 5:49 pm The red shirts from the 68/69 season weren't cotton (eg the Bukta shirts at the time) but a man made fibre... does anyone remember this?

Personally, I never actually owned (or even saw) the replica shirt back then so, I don't know about the fabric. I do remember buying a sew-on-patch- badge, though. I can't remember where I got it. My usual sports-shop haunts were Sedgewicks (obviously), Stanley's in the High Street, Roy King in Chingford and Bick's in Hoe Street.
As I didn't have the necessary shirt, I got my mum to sew the badge onto a track-suit top.

baz

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