In this post, Steve Sapardanis mentioned the two-toned maize pants that were worn in the 1970s. I added a photo of Rick Leach but I’m sensing there are still some non-believers out there.
Believe it – here are a few more photos thanks to Dr. Sapardanis:
5 Comments
cb2009
I’d like to think the 2-tone is due to two different fabrics being used, and one of them fading in the wash more than the other. If not, those are just weird pants.
Mike
I hadn’t noticed the two tone pants before, but I loved the tight shoulder stripes on the mid 70s road jerseys. Seems like they brought them back once – maybe for the 1993 Rose Bowl…
But with the essentially sleeveless jerseys of today, it would be pointless to got back to those.
Larry
I do not recall the difference in those Michigan pants from the 70’s. But the pics make it obvious. As for 2 shades I noticed those cool early 1930’s jerseys. # 28 and # 32 had different shade of maize number on the front and back.
John
That is correct – you’ll see that among colleges and NFL teams in the 60s, 70s, and even up until say 1985/86 when that shiny-spandex fabric that didn’t fade became used for the entire pants, not just the fronts that got more wear on artifical turf.
Joel
I agree thatit is two different fabrics. The showy shiny front fabric is a no-stretch woven nylon called combat cloth. The lighter color back and crotch fabric was usally a double knit polyester which had more flex and some stretch and not as good dye. Spandex fabrics did not exist that long ago.