Colours
When the Toowong and North Brisbane merged to form Wests in 1915, the club's colours were to be red and blue, a combination of Toowong's blue and black and North Brisbane's red and black. However due to a shortage of blue dye due to World War I, red and black were adopted as the official colours. Wests constitutional design includes 4" (100mm) red and black bands, commencing with black on the shoulders. Sleeves then also commence with the first band being black, with the socks having red tops. During the Second World War, Wests adopted a maroon jersey with a black V, due to clothing shortages at the time.
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“So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“The sounding cataract
Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock,
The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood,
Their colours and their forms, were then to me
An appetite: a feeling and a love,
That had no need of a remoter charm,
By thought supplied, or any interest
Unborrowed from the eye.—”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
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—Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992)