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Between the soccer mysteries current figure one that no one has unraveled: why aren’t there more long-sleeved shirts? The question returned to the table a few days ago, when the images of the match arrived on television Manchester City-West Ham under heavy snowfall, despite which many footballers showed their bare arms and white from the cold.
Others wore their warm T-shirts underneath their coat, it is true. And it has been speculated that long sleeves disappeared precisely because those thermal garments began to be used, but it would be like justifying that the gentlemen discarded the tie because they put on a scarf.
Consulted several sports houses in Montevideo, it was reported that they do not have official long-sleeved club jerseys for sale. And they blamed the manufacturing brands for it. No explanation has been heard of these.
It is strange that in these times when brands frequently launch a great variety of alternative or commemorative shirt models of any date or triumph of the club, they have chosen to eliminate the elegant long sleeves, which were the predominant during the winter.
Sometimes the coat shirt has the same color as the shirt, but when it comes to a striped currency this is not possible and you can tell the difference. Long ago nobody dared to wear a long-sleeved garment underneath a short-sleeved one in daily life, and less when they were of contrasting colors. However, fashion changes fast and suddenly the weirdness became usual. For example, the characters in the series The Big Bang Theory they were adept at this trend.
The same question is asked in Europe. Jorge Giner analyzed the matter in the magazine Doll: “It was a transfer that happened without criticism or applause. One day long sleeves disappeared, thermal shirts appeared and we did not realize it, ”he wrote.
In the web Football Shirt Collective, aimed at collectors of t-shirts, the columnist Phil Delves was tougher in his comment: “The disappearance of the long-sleeved soccer jersey surely appears as a prominent chapter in the tragic and unleashed story of the death of the game we know and love,” he said.
The website points out that long-sleeved jackets were always somewhat more expensive than short-sleeved ones, but that is unlikely to be the reason for their “extinction.”
However, if you look closely at images of European football you can find some players who maintain the custom of long sleeves. For example, Antoine Griezmann. That would indicate that the marks are produced, even if the distribution to the public is restricted or null.
Football Shirt Collective did a research on brand pages and found that the official jersey of Spain has its version with long sleeves available to the public but not the Germansa, both from the same manufacturer.
Leaving the mystery unsolved for now, another question remains: when did this fad start? It may have been around 2010. The South Africa World Cup It was played with low temperatures in the southern hemisphere winter, but many teams appeared in short-sleeved shirts, without going any further Uruguay, appealing to thermal garments. ArgentinaInstead, it showed long sleeves. We will have to wait for the ever-changing fashion to return.
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