Editing North Melbourne Football Club (section)

===Guernsey===
The North Melbourne Football Club has a long history of wearing various designs in the colours of royal blue and white.

Most of the club's earliest jumpers were long-sleeved and not the sleeveless design common today.{{citation needed|date=August 2018}} In their early years the club sported a hooped design when they took to the field.{{citation needed|date=August 2018}} This changed at the behest of the VFA in 1884 who insisted that Hotham change their jumpers to vertical stripes to provide a visible contrast between Hotham and Geelong.{{citation needed|date=August 2018}}

After 1884 the vertical top was worn more often, usually in the lace-up design in the gallery below.<ref name="Vamplew Australian Society for Sports History 1994 p. 310">{{cite book |last=Vamplew |first=W. |author2=Australian Society for Sports History |title=The Oxford Companion to Australian Sport |publisher=Oxford University Press |series=Oxford Companions Series |year=1994 |isbn=978-0-19-553568-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WotYAAAAYAAJ |access-date=4 May 2019 |page=310 |quote=North Melbourne Football Club had a chequered history in its early years and although one of the founding members of the VFA in 1877 ... The club has also gone through several changes of uniform; the blue-and-white vertical stripes of today were first used in 1885. North won its first VFA premierships in 1903-4 and then added another four in quick succession (1910, 1914-15, 1918) to be one of the ...}}</ref>

After the merger with West Melbourne, North used a composite jumper that incorporated West Melbourne's red sash for the 1908 season.{{citation needed|date=August 2018}} The merger was in reality, a takeover.{{citation needed|date=August 2018}} The red sash was a token gesture and was removed the following season.{{citation needed|date=August 2018}}

In the early 1920s North experimented with an NMFC monogram design, following League clubs like Carlton and South Melbourne.{{citation needed|date=August 2018}}

Upon promotion to the VFL in 1925, North Melbourne was forced to abandon its royal blue and white striped jumper as it was deemed the jumper design clashed with other clubs.{{citation needed|date=August 2018}} During this period a jumper with a V design was used for several years, before the club returned to using its striped jumper combination of royal blue and white which has been used continuously since 1932.<ref>{{Cite web |title=North Melbourne Home Jumpers |url=https://footyjumpers.com/kangarooshome.htm |access-date=June 4, 2024 |website=footyjumpers.com}}</ref>

For 86 seasons, until 2016, the blue stripes were centred, the guernsey had a blue collar and cuffs, and black numbers. Until the 1970s, the numbers were attached to a white panel, while since this point, the top half of the back of the guernsey has been made white to accommodate larger numbers. 

Between 2011 and 2016, North Melbourne wore an inverted version of their guernsey, which was predominantly blue with white numbers, as an alternate uniform. In 2017, this was made the club's home jumper and the traditional version was reserved for clashes. However, this was reversed when the club signed a sponsorship deal with German sporting brand [[Puma (brand)|Puma]], effective from the 2022 season. This saw a return of the traditional guernsey, as well as hooped socks, unused as part of the home uniform since the 1960s. The black player numbers would return in 2023.

In the 1990s, many AFL clubs began to produce alternate uniforms, known in Australian football as 'clash' guernseys.{{citation needed|date=March 2023}} At Arden Street, this meant the introduction of the 'Bounding Roo'. Coinciding with a change in marketing by which the club sought to identify more with the ''Kangaroos'' image, this design included a blue chest with thin stripes extending downwards, onto a large kangaroo. The kangaroo was taken from the club's logo, in which it is represented bounding rightward. The guernsey is thus known as the 'Bounding Roo'. Given its association with the club's golden era in the late 1990s, the guernsey is popular among NMFC supporters today.{{citation needed|date=March 2023}} It was used in 2016 to celebrate 20 years since the club's third premiership, and in 2019, North's 150th anniversary.