page_title: Exeter College Boat Club
section_title: Uniform
hierarchical_section_title: Exeter College Boat Club / Uniform
caption_attribution_description: English: Oxford college rowing jerseys - booklet of lithograph plates - 2 of 6 - c. 1848
context_page_description: Exeter College Boat Club is the boat club of Exeter College, Oxford, England. The club trains on the Thames on the Isis stretch in Oxford and at Abingdon, Oxfordshire.
  The Boat Club competes primarily in Torpids and Summer Eights bumps races in Oxford. However, it also races at various external events, such as Wallingford Regatta.
  The college has a boathouse on Christ Church Meadow which it shares with Brasenose College Boat Club.
context_section_description: Exeter is associated with the colour red, which features prominently on its crest. The colour is used in racing kits, blazers, ties and blades.
  The first known use of a tie in club colours was by members of Exeter College eight. In 1880, they took the ribbons off their boaters and tied them around their necks as a way to identify with their college. Members who have raced in the first crews in Torpids are granted the right to wear this tie.
  Members who have raced in the first boats in Summer Eights are permitted to wear the club blazer, which has been in use since the mid-nineteenth century. The blazer is peony red, with black trim. Captains are entitled to an extra stripe on the sleeve. 
  For much of its history, members of Exeter wore distinctive black boaters with red ribbons. The tradition fell out of fashion at some point in the 1960s.
caption: Exeter College Boat Club depicted in Vanity Fair in the 1840s
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