After months of speculation over what Everton’s home kit for their historic final season at Goodison Park might look like the design has been unveiled. Produced for the first time by new manufacturers Castore – a firm founded by the Merseyside Beahon brothers less than a decade ago – who replace hummel after a five-year partnership with the Danish company, it’s a very clean-looking strip that while using the latest scientific technologies and produced with contemporary fashion in mind will hopefully also satisfy the traditionalists. This might seem a given with an home kit but the shirt is a rich, vibrant shade of royal blue rather than the some of the slightly lighter hues we’ve seen in the past, including most-infamously the 1997/98 design.
The socks are white, like the shorts of course – although blue shorts, as worn by the women’s team, are also available for men’s and women’s kits – and there is no tertiary colour like yellow or black that have both been used at various times previously. The round neck collar is unfussy while the pattern on the shirt is a deconstructed representation of Everton’s original crest from the 1920s but to this correspondent’s eyes had a distinctly 1990s retro vibe to it. Continuing with a service that Castore offered with their kits last season, for the first time, adult sizes will be available in both ‘pro’ and replica options with the former offering the opportunity to wear shirts and shorts which are exactly the .
