>From several resource books I have it appears that jerseys went from shirt collars to the current style around 1960. I have pictures from the 1959 Tour showing all the leading riders wearing shirt collared jerseys and again for 1960 with most? riders, including yellow jersey, ?wearing the newer style (there are a few hold-outs with the older style). I have been unable to locate any info as to why the change (so far) but a change by Italian jersey makers seems as logical as any.
Rex Gilmore Vienna, VA
-----Original Message----- From: Cino1947@aol.com To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Sent: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 3:37 pm Subject: Re: [CR] 1950's fashion in professional jerseys
I don't know the answer to your question, but I prefer this style for esthetic reasons. I also prefer front pockets- best place to keep a cell phone. Josh Berger Bronx, NY USA
In a message dated 3/26/2009 3:29:08 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, classicrendezvous-request@bikelist.org writes:
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:08:54 -0600 From: Chris Kvale <chriskvalecycles@gmail.com> Subject: [CR] l950's fashion in professional jerseys To: CR List <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Message-ID: <87a026160903261208i5d419137u787f29fabb5e01c4@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"
Dear CR people and historians--
Does anyone have any knowledge about the fashion of shirt-type collars on the jerseys of the professional (and I presume amateur) racers? Very popular in the forties and still appearing in the early fifties, but sometime in the mid- to late-fifties seemed to have disappeared completely. Did Coppi appear one spring with a cuff-type neck, and therefore everyone else switched? Or did the Italian jersey makers figure out how to make a nice cuff neck and its adoption become obvious?
If this question is interesting and appropriate for the list, I have a couple of others which can't be answered by the record books.
Chris Kvale Minneapolis, MN USA
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