What not to wear.

Canada's mens team, together with their new partner Umbro today unveiled the new home and away shirt, which you can see here at Canadian Soccer news. 

I don't buy TFC shirts because I don't like sponsors, so for me, aside from the chance to wear it once or twice at Canada games, the main purpose for this would be as a good shirt to wear to summer TFC games, still supporting the team, and contributing to the red in the crowd without having to be a billboard for BMO.  So I was really looking forward to buying the newest red version, but now?

I'm no fashion expert, so this won't be a compllicated critique, more of a gut reaction, and that gut reaction is ugh.  The chevrons are ugly, the shade of red is way too bright (though in the drawing below the actual picture, it's darker, I like that a lot more, hopefully that's what it looks like in real life), the collar makes it look like a t-shirt, the logo doesn't stand out at all, and the whole thing is way too reminiscent of a Man Utd shirt for my comfort.

The white one works a lot better, so maybe I'll get that one, I dunno, hopefully by the time they go on sale in the summer, the red will have grown on me, but for now, it's a bit of a disappointment.