re: White helmet, Purple jerseys, white pants

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I like the White, Purple, White... but i do think the stripe pattern needs to be matched on the helmet and pants

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This.

I'm a uniform nerd and this has been a problem for nearly 20 years, in that LSU has allowed the pants to have additional striping but does not have the jersey or helmet striping match.

Back in the 1980's, the uniforms were just three stripes. Helmet and pants matched and the jersey was the reverse.



Sometimes in the late 90's I think they added additional striping to the pants but did not fix the helmet to match. Pants started added a gold stripe in-between the purple and white so instead of three stripes there's five.



Strangely, the only time the bother to fix this is for the alternate we're wearing this Saturday. finally the helmet and pants match...but they wait until they're white to do it. But, the jerseys are still three stripes...



I did this quickly last year. to show what the jersey would look like with that additional thin stripe when purple...



All that being said, I agree. LSU's gold/white/gold has become iconic and should always remain the main uniform for us. However, just as there has been tweaks even to this uniform over the years, there needs to be another one...and that's to either go back to the simple three stripes on all pieces or move all pieces to the five stripes. Seems it would be a simple fix and I'm not quote sure why they've never done it.

The pants have stripes this year