Stunning All Blacks Rainbow ‘United Black Shirt’

The New Zealand All Blacks and Black Ferns have a stunning new jersey that incorporates some eye catching technology to promote inclusiveness and diversity. As players clutch at the shirt, stretching the thread, a rainbow of colours appear in what did look like an All Black fabric. The shirt interestingly also has three white stripes […]

New Zealand All Blacks 2017 adidas Home Jersey

The All Blacks release a trademark powerful adidas home jersey for their upcoming battles against the British Lions. To be used in the rugby clash of the year, the All Blacks series against the British Lions, arguably the greatest ever rugby nation have been handed a truly traditional jersey by adidas which of course stays […]

All Blacks 2017 adidas Away Shirt

The undoubted worlds best rugby team have unveiled their latest away shirt which features a modern adidas design. When it comes to iconic rugby shirts, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better example than the New Zealand All Blacks home shirt which poses in a powerfully traditional manner. However, with their all-new home shirt being […]

British & Irish Lions 2017 Canterbury Shirt

British & Irish Lions’ new kit suppliers of Canterbury have unveiled the glorious shirt which will be pulled-on by the prestigious rugby team within 2017 fixtures. Last manufacturing strips for the Lions back in 1958, Canterbury have returned in powerful fashion by designing and delivering a passionate shirt for the home nations using iconic colours. […]

All Blacks 2017 adidas Home Jersey

adidas release the All Blacks brand-new home jersey which the three-striped brand have labelled as their strongest ever through innovative technology and construction. With the All Blacks not only posing as undoubtedly the greatest team on the planet at current but also arguably the most recognisable through their appropriate full black look, the National team […]

Rugby Shirts

Rugby Jersey's or shirts as they are now more commonly known, were until recently always manufactured from cotton. However, with the advent of cheaper far eastern manufacturing the more affluent teams now wear polyester and lesser sides a mixture of cotton and synthetic fabrics.

The latest shirts are figure hugging with little or no collars or buttons they are also designed to remove the water from the body quickly to aid cooling. The first examples of these shirts were worn by New Zealand and England during the season before the 2003 Rugby World Cup.

The designers also planned that they would be harder to grip and tear resistant but several England players showed that under the tough conditions of a rugby park the first versions were not quite as resistant as hoped. The technology of the shirt is still developing and it will be interesting to see what innovations if any come forth over the next couple of years.