From sketchbook to spotlight: The lifecycle of an Oregon uniform

"Inside the Marcus Mariota Performance Center, history dangles from wire hangers. The glitz and glamour surrounding Oregon football is not immediately apparent. This is a practical place -- a dimly lit, long hallway inside the second floor of the equipment room furnished with gray built-in closets -- created not as a way to showcase, but rather to store the very thing that has become synonymous with the Ducks: their vast array of fabrics, colors and prints."

"Among a sea of roughly 800 jerseys, there's nearly every shade of green -- from neon to emerald to forest to army. Here, black or white never look boring, and the yellow used over the years ranges from a Gatorade-colored hue to Cal gold. Splashes of pink, gray, brown, orange, chrome and blue complete the synthetic rainbow. On this Saturday afternoon following Oregon's win over Oklahoma State,"

""Some of our best uniforms we've ever worn, we lost the games," Farr said. "It's hard to mention those, because they looked good, but we didn't win the game. So it kind of goes down as a jersey I'll try to forget about and move on to the next.""

Oregon stores and preserves roughly 800 football jerseys in a practical archive inside the Marcus Mariota Performance Center. The collection spans an extensive palette of greens, yellows and other colors, plus varied fabrics and prints. Equipment administrator Kenny Farr curates materials, maintains the inventory, and treats jerseys as both functional gear and a catalog of design moments. Farr is not the primary designer but serves as a custodian and essential operator for uniform logistics. The program tracks combinations and their associations with game outcomes. Designers collaborate with staff, and uniform choices carry aesthetic and historical significance for the team.

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