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The first Latics team in season 1932/3, playing in the Cheshire League, wore these red and white halved shirts. The same coloured shirts were worn throughout the Thirties up until the outbreak of the Second World War. In some seasons the team wore white shorts and hooped socks. |
| After the War due to clothing shortages the club, now playing in the Lancashire Combination, could only get blue shirts from the local sports shop, and so blue and white were adopted as the club colours. This kit with Arsenal-style white sleeves was worn in the 1947/8 season. |  |
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By the late Fifties English clubs had been competing in Europe for a number of years, and the continental influence was beginning to be felt, even in Wigan. The old jerseys with buttoned collars made way for lighter V-neck short-sleeved shirts, and this simple but quite stylish Latics kit was worn for the 1959/60 season in the Lancashire Combination. |
| By the mid-Sixties Latics were back playing in the Cheshire League, and in 1966, the year of England's World Cup victory, Latics were emulating FA Cup-Winners Everton with this nearly identical kit. |  |
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In 1968/9 Latics wore this interestingly different kit of all blue with two white braces. |
| White boots and long hair for the 1973 team. Once again the team have colours which seem to follow the trend of the Everton team of that era - or maybe Everton got their kit ideas from the Latics? |  |
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Finally in 1978 Latics made it into the League, with the team wearing what many fans still consider to be one of the smartest kits the team has turned out in - blue and white stripes with blue collars. This was one of the club's golden periods, and many look back on the old kit with affection. |