Re: Australian Cricket - Crisis, What Crisis ??
Reply #1509 –
The thing I hate most about the Albion emblem is the eyeballs, it's rank amateur and not needed. They look like somebody has placed a couple of dots with a permanent marker!
The thing is the test cap should look elite, like somebodies Grandma has spent a year sewing it just so, no two the same, and not mass produced, and very very traditional.
When you get that baggy green it should mean something, not the like the brown paper bag version handed out in NSW!
The stupid thing is this, for the test caps, there are any number of agricultural shows you could go to and find the right people to make these caps in a very limited but elite way and they would do it for free!
But there are a lot of things that have gone this way, think about many of the modern trophies handed out versus the old world equivalents. Either the artisans just are not around, or profit has become more important than form and function.