Hello folks! Welcome to a new week on HJC. Yes it's a new week here, even though it's only Friday. Starting today the HJC week will run from Friday to Thursday, instead of Sunday to Saturday. This will allow more time to for you to nominate (and second, third, etc) concepts posted on Friday for COTW. Ryan wrote a post on the HJC Design Blog with all the important details.
To start off this new week I thought I'd give a quick sock stripe tutorial, since one of the most common execution errors I see is sock stripes being placed too high. Let's begin by taking a look at socks in game action.
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| (Photo by Andy Devlin/Edmonton Oilers Hockey Club) |
As you can see in this photo of Connor McDavid (taking on February 16, 2016) the sock stripes are approximately half way up to the pants, maybe a bit lower. What we can't see in this photo is how far up underneath the pants the socks go, so we can't judge the position of the stripes in relation to the whole sock. We would have to see the socks on their own.
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| Image from auction.nhl.com |
Luckily for us these exact Connor McDavid socks (game worn from February 16, 2016) were up for auction on NHL.com, so we can take a look at the true position of the stripes (and no, I didn't buy them). As you can see, the sock stripes aren't half way up the whole socks, they're only up about 30%. That's quite a bit lower than you might expect just from looking at game photos.
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Lastly, here is where the stripes should be placed on a sock template (the Reebok Edge sock from Templates page). Hopefully this clears the sock stripe height issue up a bit, I know I've mentioned it fairly often in the past when reviewing concepts, but I've never explained in any detail before.
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