Fair enough, still not convinced.
But I wonder where did they come from and/or why we wore chocolate and blue, if we did, when the municipal colours were already identified as claret and white?
They'd used up all the claret and white cloth to make the new uniforms for the Northamptonshire Regiment that had been formed a few years before and shipped off to the North West Frontier.
Because they didn't have any money they just asked the local haberdashery what cloth they had on the cheap. They had just relocated from Coventry to Northampton so had loads of sky blue material and rolls of brown material she'd bought on an impulse in the sales and hadn't been able to shift until NTFC came along.
