Colorado Avalanche Mammoth Denver Nuggets Broncos Rockies Rapids legends skyline signatures shirt

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Take my Kid Rock Colorado Avalanche Mammoth Denver Nuggets Broncos Rockies Rapids legends skyline signatures shirt the relic of a messy teenage relationship that quickly soured. It first slipped into my ownership circa 2003, in the heady summer after A-levels. I would borrow it to wear after a night out, high on strawberry daiquiris and the knowledge that I would never again be questioned on 19th-century history. I have never knowingly listened to a Kid Rock song. And, until today, had no idea about his politics, which seem to veer to the right of Donald Trump’s. Although now that I do (the absolute horror!) I don’t think I will ever be able to wear said T-shirt again. For this week’s newsletter, we asked Guardian writers to give us a sniff of the clothes they kept from an ex. Unsurprisingly, most are off the record. I was young and immature and his clothes were a constant point of contention between us. He left his Champion jumper, the only nice item of clothing he really wore, at my house, and I deliberately never gave it back because I wanted a reminder of him. But also because I was bitter and I wanted to deprive him of his one cool look. And I couldn’t bear the idea of him pulling in it.

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It’s a style that’s Colorado Avalanche Mammoth Denver Nuggets Broncos Rockies Rapids legends skyline signatures shirt American as apple pie – so why is it making a comeback the world over? The varsity jacket is “an odd bird in the world in fashion” for the way it has stayed so present in style trends over the past century even as it’s “retained its original meaning,” says Deirdre Clemente, historian and curator of 20th-century American material culture at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The story of the varsity jacket is, she says, inherently a story about technology. The garment has its origins in the “letterman” sweater – a knitted jumper featuring an initial taken from a school that was made with new kinds of knitting machines that could make items very fast. Originally only given to elite sportsmen at Ivy League colleges in the late-1800s and early-1900s, “it really began as an elite marker of sportsmanship,” Clemente says. By the 1940s, the jacket had replaced the sweater and it began to crop up on high-school campuses. By the 50s and 60s, new manufacturing technology meant that a variety of business could produce varsity jackets; high-street fashion brands realised that “we can just make these things, they don’t have to have any cultural meanings,” says Clemente. By the 60s and 70s, the letterman had “become a retro fashion statement”, and, in the 80s, alongside the rise of sportswear, companies began to make jackets that alluded to varsity style but featured random images and patches. “Starting about mid-century, as individualism in fashion comes to the fore, people started to use the jacket ironically,” says Clemente. “[People would] wear it with dirty jeans – it wasn’t part of distinguishing who you are as an extra special athlete, it was more a way of distinguishing a style.”