KAPPA SHIRTS

Kappa built its reputation on fit rather than fabric technology: shirts cut close to the body, with short sleeves and a snug collar, years before slim-fit became the norm anywhere else in football. That cut is obvious across the Juventus shirts here, from Roberto Baggio's 1990-91 home shirt through Zidane's 1995-96 and 1999-2000 seasons to Del Piero's own run into the early 2000s. Where an Umbro or Adidas shirt from the same years sits loose, a Kappa runs noticeably tighter through the chest and sleeve, which matters more than usual when picking a size off an old label.

Juventus sits at the core of this collection: Baggio's early-90s home shirts, Zidane's mid-90s home and third kits, and Del Piero across home and third shirts from 1995 through to a 1999-2000 basic edition. Kappa held the Juventus deal through the club's strongest run of Serie A titles in that decade, and the range in stock traces that whole period rather than a single season, down to a 1989-90 shirt from before Baggio's arrival.

Outside Italy, Feyenoord wore Kappa through the early 2000s, and the range here covers Van Persie's 2002-03 home shirt, Tomasson's and Kalou's 2000-01 season and a Zoetebier goalkeeper shirt from the club's UEFA Cup-winning year. Brescia's Baggio-era shirts and AS Roma's Totti third kits from 2007 to 2011 round out the Italian side of the collection.

Look for the Omini, the two-figure silhouette logo Kappa has used since the 1970s, usually stitched small on the chest or sleeve rather than blown up the way modern sponsor branding is. Combined with the tight cut, it is the fastest way to place a shirt as Kappa before even checking the label, useful across a collection that runs from Baggio's early Juventus years to Feyenoord's title-winning squad of the early 2000s.