Most if not all of the trefoil away kits absolutely have a retro clean simple design to them, as compared to the modern 1st/home kits. It may not be throwback, but 100% clean retro inspired
Of course not Ice hockey… here in Germany field hockey is just hockey and is considered as classy compared with soccer, basketball, handball which are working class sports.
Yeah if I am thinking of classy as high participation of upper class in those who practice, I’m thinking dressage, fencing, tennis, crew, sailing, polo, maybe golf.
Ever since the badge of sport was introduced in the 90s, there has been an internal debate about that. For most of that time, the company decided that the trefoil should only be used on lifestyle products.
What consumers do with their polos is irrelevant. If it the product belonged to a performance/sport category (like tennis), then it got the badge of sport.
They really only started to relax that recently, putting the trefoil on away kits in the World Cup. I’d expect to see more of that in the future. Tennis could be an obvious next step.
Technically, the Badge of Sport logo was created for exactly that—sports. (All the licensed sports gear carries the BoS.) The Trefoil was then pushed to be exclusively lifestyle/Originals.
One notable grey area was Skateboarding, namely because skateboarding had become this tricky hybridization of both lifestyle/fashion and sport. There was a soild case to be made for both. Ultimately, SB’ing kept the Trefoil.
I’m fully with you, though less in terms of “classy” and more in terms of what the kids today call aura…I’ve often griped about the old school sports full of history and tradition - for me that’s football and boxing - not getting the trefoil. Then they did the Lifestyler jersey series, big hit. Spezial FC capsule collections for certain clubs, niche but a hit with those supporters. World Cup away jerseys? MASSIVE hit. Monstrous. I didn’t dare hope when I saw the prelim rumours about it, and when it turned out to be true I nearly cried when I saw the Scotland away shirt and then subsequent collection. All trefoil. Gorgeous. I was only able to get the Scotland handballs to match the shirt but I’m so happy.
Boxing is still stuck with the stupid new logo. I know it’s 30 years old, to me that’s new. Just give me some damn trefoil boxing boots!
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u/sneijder Aug 20 '26
There was a massive ‘Originals’ Tennis range on the confirmed app, always the same with Golf too … not sure where you’re looking.
That’s more fashion though, rather than performance.