Grey
I was reading an article about fencing garb recently, which was talking about why regular fencers wear white but coaches wear black. It was smart enough to realise the answer was "laundry", but got things a bit mixed up. This article suggested that regular fencers wear white but the superior coaches wear black to show the superiority of the coaches' laundry. This is supposedly because it's easier to keep whites white and harder to keep blacks black, but the truth is white is a massively difficult colour to maintain. Most sporting gear for "posh sports" (fencing, cricket, tennis...) went white roughly the same time not because it's easy to maintain but because it shows you have staff who can put serious time and effort into doing your laundry, or you have the money to send your clothes away to be laundered every day. You'll notice more working class sports like football tend to have multi-coloured clothing - it shows the stains less, so you can get aw
