A brief history of Lymington Cricket Club shirts...
Lymington Cricket Club was founded way back in 1807, but it wasn't until the late 1980s that our players first donned what might be classed as 'proper' team shirts. Up until then, for the vast majority of cricket history, players would simply wear whatever was the fashion of the day, and it wasn't necessarily white. In the earliest years of the club, during the Georgian period, shirts were big and frilly and cricketers wore colourful stocks (ties) around their necks. On their heads they would wear powdered wigs under low top hats. By the time Lymington moved their home matches from Pennington Common to the Sports Ground in 1836 players were rather more conservatively dressed. They would take to the field in waistcoats or jackets over plain white shirts and bow ties. By the 1850s, however, the posher cricket teams would start to wear colourful shirts with spots, stripes or even cheques on a white background. Between 1880 and 1895 the coloured shirts disappeared and wh