Fashion Faux Pas: Lorient Unveil A Halloween Nascar Racing Suit.

By: chris | July 8th, 2009

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Oftentimes we attack certain kits with hyperbole for effect. This is not one of those cases. This is genuinely the most hideous kit I have ever seen, confirmed up by a brief short poll at The Offside Global Headquarters. So awful it leads to the question: Has anyone refused to sign with a team based on their kit alone?

On one hand it sounds ridiculous, but on the other, more than a few footballers have been guilty of excessive vanity and priority with their image (ahem). Not altogether unthinkable, but probably difficult to find the answer.

If not, there’s a decent chance French top tier side (no really) FC Lorient could be the first after unleashing this garish shirt-masquerading-as-an-advertisement-board. The company is French outfit Duarig, not one of your standards, who managed to not only unleash one of the ugliest kits ever….but managed to unleash four of the ugliest kits ever. Why four for a club which finished tenth and in a perpetual state of staving off relegation is beyond us (unless it’s one home, one away and one for each of the two cup competitions). But they did it, and they did it spectacularly bad.

It’s a dreadful combination of orange, brown and right which kick it off in the wrong direction before what can only be assumed a coordinated seizure produced a swirly floral-type thing which will look mostly fantastic when mostly tucked into shorts. It also doesn’t help that their logo is a cartoon fish-cum-football.

It’s all just wrong. Too wrong. Too much going on and not enough of it is right. It even brought about the discussion of when things were done so well, so simple. Kits that attract beer-belching rednecks in the ouest of France don’t quite fall into that category.

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• Weston |  July 8th, 2009 at 4:05 pm

  
  
  

  The fourth has potential to be really cool…

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• LorenzoRosanero |  July 8th, 2009 at 4:06 pm

  
  
  

  Did they make a deal with Tony the Tiger and Frosted Flakes? Because that’s what it’d seem to be…

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• Francesco |  July 8th, 2009 at 4:40 pm

  
  
  

  I think Lorient will have an all-time low in jersey sales next season.

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• Laurie |  July 8th, 2009 at 4:48 pm

  
  
  

  a swirly floral-type thing which will look mostly fantastic when mostly tucked into shorts

  It will look like a lizard, on an egg hunt.

  I mean…wait, what?

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• Lord Quas |  July 8th, 2009 at 4:48 pm

  
  
  

  I would get the orange and the brown one… but I wouldn’t know where to get one haha

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• Lowe |  July 8th, 2009 at 6:13 pm

  
  
  

  AAAAHHHHHH!!!! My eyes!!!!

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• Johonna |  July 8th, 2009 at 11:16 pm

  
  
  

  I dunno, I dont think they are meant to be tucked in. note the convergent arrows on the jersey and shorts that draw attention to the ..er.. lower abdominal area (presumably where the eggs will be hidden). And is that a rebus puzzle on the ass area of the jersey?

  I do like the swoopy bit on the fourth kit, though.

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• Scott |  July 9th, 2009 at 7:55 am

  
  
  

  Stade Francais (rugby) and Marseille have had some pretty bizarre shirts recently

  http://www.soccerscene.co.uk/product_info.php/products_id/2724

  http://www.rugby15.co.uk/images/0708/stadefrancaish.jpg

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• Scott |  July 9th, 2009 at 7:58 am

  
  
  

  that lorient shirt looks a bit like a rugby league shirt

  Stade Francais (rugby) and Marseille have had some pretty bizarre shirts recently

  http://www.soccerscene.co.uk/product_info.php/products_id/2724

  http://www.rugby15.co.uk/images/0708/stadefrancaish.jpg

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• Juliet |  July 9th, 2009 at 9:11 am

  
  
  

  This is one company that needs to be put out of its misery by globalization.

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• Scott |  July 10th, 2009 at 10:31 am

  
  
  

  i like the classic late 80s early 90s shirts – Milan (Motta) and Napoli (Mars)

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• Scott |  July 10th, 2009 at 10:33 am

  
  
  

  posted on wrong page !

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• Uschi Disl |  July 24th, 2009 at 2:00 am

  
  
  

  Bloody hell. Who creates those ugly shirts? They can´t be sold over 10 Euros can they?

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• Aditya |  August 28th, 2009 at 10:44 pm

  
  
  

  4th kit! Is that for distraction? Last season Marseille were pretty distracted playing Lorient at Velodrome.

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