The Luton range covers the late 1980s onwards — a span that takes in the club’s fall out of the top flight and its return.
Home shirts lead, followed by away shirts, third shirts and a few jackets. Match kit makes up the clear majority, which is not always the case with smaller English clubs in this catalogue.
The orange and white home shirt of the period is distinctive and remains the most recognisable line here. The upper end of the range is occupied by late-1980s material, which appears rarely.
Founded in 1885, Luton Town have played at Kenilworth Road since 1905. The nickname comes from the town’s hat-making trade.
The club joined the Football League before the 1897-98 season but left in 1900 over financial trouble, only rejoining in 1920. It first reached the First Division in 1955-56 and contested its first major final against Nottingham Forest. That stop-start history across every tier of the English pyramid is why Luton shirts turn up from such a wide range of divisions.
The 1-10 grade describes wear to fabric, printing and collar. It says nothing about fit.
English sizing from the late 1980s runs considerably larger than the same nominal size today — a medium from that era often corresponds to a modern large.
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