Everyone knows you don't wear white pants after Labor Day. Everyone, that is, except the 1974 Capitals.No discussion of the team's uniform would be complete without mentioning the original road outfit, modeled here by Tommy Williams.
For some reason, baseball and football teams can get away with white pants. Not so for hockey players. Whether it's the different material, the moisture from the ice, the perspiration, or all of the above, white hockey pants just don't stay white. And that can be embarrassing. That's why they were abandoned midway through their first season of use.
For more on the look that makes regular appearances on lists of all-time worst sports uniforms, read the first entry on the "Strange But True" page.