Costelloe designs new MCC Women's kit

Date released: 2 March 2010

Costelloe with the newly outfitted team in the Long Room Acclaimed fashion designer Paul Costelloe designed the new MCC Women's tour clothing - currently being worn by the team in Trinidad & Tobago.

Costelloe, a cricket fan, also designed the new 'uniform' for England's extremely successful women's team.

MCC's Product Development Manager, Anne Welham, had previously worked with Costelloe and after contacting him found the designer was thrilled to work with MCC.

Some of Costelloe's original designs Following discussion with MCC he agreed to help create a new touring uniform for the Club's women players.

The first MCC touring blazer was issued in 1903 and, keen to emphasise the Club's history, Costelloe based his designs around the original blazer, still stored in the MCC Museum.

Costelloe said: "The 1903 blazer was the inspiration for the new uniform that I had the pleasure to design for MCC Women’s tour of Trinidad and Tobago.

"The material is of course lighter, with the change of climate, but the overall appearance still conveys the great history of MCC."

History of blazer & tours

The original touring blazers were discontinued in 1980 but now 107 years on are revived as the MCC Women wear them on their tour of Trinidad & Tobago.

MCC's Charlotte Russell in the new blazer MCC also toured the West Indies exactly 100 years ago (no doubt wearing the original blazers). However, the tour would have taken slightly longer as, without air travel, the team visited the islands by boat - travelling from Barbados to British Guyana on the Royal Mail Steam Packet Clyde.

You can follow the progress of the current tour via the scorecards on Lords.org