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‘Englishness is constantly revised’: Umbro exhibition shows evolution of football shirts
Exhibition shows Nike’s criticised reimagining of red and white St George’s Cross for Euros shirts has decades of precedent
The replacement of the traditional red and white St George’s Cross with a multicoloured one on Nike’s design for the Euros England shirt became such a hot topic in March that the prime minister got involved. Photograph: PRGroves believes the reaction to Nike’s St George’s Cross was caused by a lack of explanation. There’s an Ajax shirt remixed by Dutch streetwear label Patta, a Palace football shirt featuring a flyer from Milton Keynes nightclub The Sanctuary, a Supreme football and a pair of highly prized Off-White x Umbro sneakers made by Virgil Abloh.
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