No doubt recognizing my credentials as a Serie A historian and football kit aficionado, the Italian literary magazine Inutile asked me to write an essay on a team’s shirt history. The magazine’s editor is an Inter fan so I put aside my purple allegiance to trace the 105-year journey of the nerazzurri. I also created a two-part, poster-size, timeline graphic charting the many sartorial highs (and occasional lows) of the famous Milanese club, finally putting to good use my encyclopedic vault of calcio-related archival material.
