"ROD PERRY" writing for the "CBC" leads me to the "HOCKEY HALL OF FAME" and a look at one of what I call "CANADA'S OWN: HERITAGE GARMENTS"
"Hockey Night in Canada kicks off in record fashion"
"The 60th season of CBC’s "HOCKEY NIGHT IN CANADA" kicked off in spectacular fashion on Saturday night. (19.01.2013)
On average, a record 3.3 million viewers tuned in to the CBC’s broadcast of the "TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS" 2-1 win over the "MONTREAL CANADIENS", making it the most watched Prime East regular-season game ever on the network.
The game reached nearly 27 per cent of the population, or 9.2 million Canadians. The previous mark for viewership of a Leafs-Habs game was set in 2007 (2.85 million)."
http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/story/2013/01/21/sp-nhl-hockey-night-in-canada-record-ratings.html
Rod Perry, CBC Sports
Posted: Jan 21, 2013 7:12 PM ET
And what were they wearing? The one piece of apparel that has carried our name forward around the globe for several decades. The "CANADIAN HOCKEY SWEATER"!
This is what lead me to the "HOCKEY HALL OF FAME", I wanted a closeup look...
There is something representative of every decade that Canadians, playing hockey at an organised level, present here. You can see the various decades' differences, in the fabric, as these sweaters travel through small guage wool knits to the marvels of todays finest "techno" fabrics,
Two beautiful knit wool examples from 1928 and 1932 respectively:
and in the fonts and the iconography giving us the who's who signal their era.
Graphic tecno from the 1991:
This is fashion (the prevailing custom) in my eyes. Nope, not off the runway, but off the ice, and on to the street. Take a look around most centers where college age kids congregate and you will see it. On the streets of any Canadian city on game night, on males and females of all ages.
( I will always question the words fashion and clothing and apparel and costume, their semantics and uses, and why I put both clothing and fashion in the blog title, I don't want to tread on toes, but I will questions those who make the "rules"!)
Terminology aside, a big deal in our Canadian Heritage.
"THE HOCKEY SWEATER" pictured on our current five dollar bill with the words:
"Les hivers de mon enfance étaient des saisons longues, longues. Nous vivions en trois lieux: l'école, l'église et la patinoire; mais la vraie vie était sur la patinoire."
The words on the bill, taken from the wonderful story by "ROCH CARRIER", "THE HOCKEY SWEATER""The winters of my childhood were long, long seasons. We lived in three places - the school, the church and the skating rink - but our real life was on the skating rink."
First a tale told on "CBC RADIO"...Carrier responding to the question of French and English, with a memory of his childhood, and then published in 1979 under the title "Une abominable feuille d'érable sur la glace" ("An abominable maple leaf on the ice"). A story that got the publics attention and was adapted into an animated short illustrated by Sheldon Cohen, called The Sweater (Le Chandail) by the "NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA / (NFB)" in 1980. See it on the link...
And published as a book, with Carrier's words, translated by Sheila Fischman and Cohen's illustrations, by Tundra in 1982, that is still in print!
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Carrier's hero, Maurice "Rocket" Richard
There is a great deal of information of the sweaters detailed past and present available on the internet:
Joe Pelletier, freelance hockey journalist and the Hockey History Blogger,
Chronicling the entire history of NHL uniforms
Written and illustrated by Andrew M. Greenstein
The sweaters, now commonly known as "the jersey", worn by players internationally and the ones of the Canadian Elites, those of "TEAM CANADA" sporting the maple leaf, in various incarnations,.
The first one, for the 1920 Olympics in Belgium:
"Wearing Our Culture on Centre Ice"
"One of the most anticipated events for Canadians at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games is when Canada's hockey teams will take the stage to fight for Olympic gold on home ice. In addition to cheering for our teams, these games are a great opportunity to showcase Canadian Aboriginal art displayed on the athletes' jerseys.
During the 2010 Winter Games, men's, women's and ice sledge hockey teams will proudly wear Olympic jerseys designed by First Nation artist "DEBRA SPARROW" from Musqueam, British Columbia. These jerseys are the product of her determination to teach the world about Aboriginal peoples in Canada through "MUSQUEAM" and "SALISH" designs."
And if that is not enough to put this garment into icon status, how about adding in some dollar values...
"Paul Henderson's jersey sells for record $1.2M" auctioneer
Classic Auctions says it has been informed that Guinness classified it as the most expensive hockey jersey ever sold at auction.
The winning bid came in at $1.275 million, two years ago."
Posted: Mar 2, 2012 6:11 PM ETA
Just in case you not up on your auction prices for costume / uniform / clothing, here are several for comparison:
The ivory rayon-acetate dress worn by "Marilyn Monroe"
in "The Seven Year Itch" (USA 1955) raised $4.6 million (£2.8 million) at an
auction held at The Paley Center for Media in Los Angeles, California, USA, on
June 18 2011.
"Michael Jackson’s" ‘Thriller’ jacket was placed on auction and was sold for an astounding $1.8 million
The bedazzled, ruby slippers that "Judy Garland" wore in the "Wizard Of Oz" sold for a cool $2 million.
"THE HOCKEY SWEATER", the design, in constant evolution, the sentiment, solid.
HOCKEY HALL OF FAME http://www.hhof.com/
CANADA'S OWN: HERITAGE GARMENTS http://www.canadaclothingfashion.com/
HOCKEY NIGHT IN CANADA http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockeynightincanada/
ROCH CARRIER http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/arts-entertainment/literature/general-6/roch-carriers-birthday.html
NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA / (NFB) http://www.nfb.ca/
TEAM CANADA http://www.hockeycanada.ca/
DEBRA SPARROW http://debrasparrow.ca/
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