Fashion Faux Pas: Pink Camouflage.

By: chris | August 7th, 2009



There’s a time and a place for camouflage – typically when under enemy fire and/or on a military base. There is, however, no time for pink camouflage, unless we’re perhaps talking about costume night at a gay bar. Strangely, Partick Thistle and Puma did not seem to understand this, and not only drew up a pink camouflage football kit, but stood back from the sketches and said, “yeah, that’s brilliant, let’s put those on the pitch and sell them to people”.

And worse yet, they incorporated the pink camo into the shorts, apparently thinking the shirt itself just wasn’t enough pink camo for their tastes.

Fortunately Partick Thistle play in the Scottish First Division, rather than the Premier League, so the masses won’t be subject to this ode to 1980’s jam shorts. But one would think a club like this would want to scrape every last pound from the fans through shirt sales, and I just can’t see anyone with enough sense walking into a store, plucking one of these off a rack, thinking “it’s 2009, this is lemore than acceptab” and throwing down some hard earned.

And something needs to be done about the integration of camouflage into the world of football fashion, as it just seems highly inappropriate. Football is not war – it’s far more serious than that.

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  • Paul |  August 7th, 2009 at 10:29 am

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    I would be embarrassed to play in these and would probably request a transfer immediately if I were a player.

    I guess Partick is trying to market kits to 12 year old girls.

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  • Ian |  August 7th, 2009 at 11:57 am

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    My Caley Thistle boys will play Partick this season, and I can’t wait for the chants over this one. Ugly as sin.

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  • Jack |  August 7th, 2009 at 1:52 pm

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    Don’t be a hater. Camo = bad. Pink = cool.

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  • World Cup 2010 Packages |  August 8th, 2009 at 2:54 am

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    There’s a time and a place for camouflage – typically when under enemy fire and/or on a military base.

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