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

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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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