<Li> <P> Orange wordmark </P> </Li> <P> For most of the 1940s through the late 1960s the Bears, unlike most all NFL teams, wore helmets and face masks made by Chicago - based Wilson Sporting Goods . This headgear was of a slightly different shape than that of the Riddell company, the principal supplier to NFL teams . (Gale Sayers's mid-1960s flared - ear Wilson helmet and white face mask with angled vertical bars are familiar to football fans). In 1982, the club's standard gray facemasks became dark blue . In 1994, in honor of the NFL's 75th Anniversary, the Bears helmets were all blue, and without the logo . The Bears would don a similar helmet to the 1994 helmet in 2010, honoring the Monsters of the Midway, with the helmets still being blue, but with a grey facemask </P> <P> In 1920 the team introduced the official team uniforms containing brown and blue stripes . This design of vertical stripes was a popular trend for football jerseys of the 1920s . The stripes were made up of strips of canvas that helped players grip the football . This was necessary because the standard football then in use was slightly fatter, rounder, and more difficult to handle than a modern football . The players' jersey number was displayed only on the back . In the 1930s, the franchise's team uniform underwent some substantial alterations . After many subtle and not - so - subtle changes, by 1933 the Bears donned all - orange jerseys with navy numbers and matching navy blue helmets . George Halas, by all accounts, adopted the navy blue and orange colors in honor of those of his alma mater, the University of Illinois . The team experimented with all orange uniforms during the decade, which was booed by the New York crowd during a game against the New York Giants for being "loud". In 1936, they modified this design into "an early version of psychedelia" by adding three orange stripes to their helmets, changing the color of the jerseys from orange to white, complementing the new white jerseys with fourteen navy and orange alternating stripes on the sleeves, and introducing socks with a similar striped pattern extending from ankle to knee . Due to poor response from the fans and the media, this design lasted only one season . In 1935, the Bears introduced an orange jersey with black arm stripes . Striping on the socks were added 5 years later . </P> <P> By 1949, the team was wearing the familiar navy blue shirts with white, rounded numbers . In 1956, the team added "TV numbers" to the sleeves . By 1957 the NFL, in part for easier television viewing, ordered home teams to wear dark, primary - colored jerseys and road teams white; the Bears' white jersey featured blue numerals with orange trim, and the three parallel sleeve stripes, the top and bottom blue and the middle orange . By 1960 the team's home jerseys had added orange trim to the round white numerals (which became slightly smaller); the blue socks gained white borders to the orange stripes . In 1961 the orange sleeve stripes were given white borders . The Bears added the initials GSH to the left sleeve of their jerseys after the October 31, 1983 passing of George Halas . In 1970, the Bears added names to the back to the players jersey . </P>

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