Gym and training wear: the garments that are worn every day, so they are specified for washing

A game jersey is washed twenty times a season. A training tee is washed a hundred and fifty. Colour that survives the first is not necessarily colour that survives the second, and a surface print certainly does not — a pressed logo on a training tee is cracked by the end of a semester. Everything in this range is sublimated for that reason: the colour is in the fibre and washing does not reach it.

The knit is chosen the same way. A training tee is a mid-weight polyester that holds its shape wet; a compression layer is a four-way stretch that returns after every wash; a hoodie is a brushed fleece that does not pill. Our note on how sublimated kit should be washed is short, because there is little to get wrong.

A coaching staff is the part of a program that is seen at every fixture and photographed with every team, and it is the part most often dressed in whatever was nearest. A coaching polo in the program colours, with a name and a title, is the cheapest way to make a program look organised, and it is ordered with training wear because it is worn the same way — daily, and washed.

It is embroidered rather than printed where a program wants the crest to have texture, which is the one place in this range where a surface decoration outlasts a dyed one, and our page on crests stitched onto a polo says why.