Australia launched its newest senior mens and women's football kit on Tuesday.  

While the kit seems to have polarised opinion between those who get to play in it and those asked to shell out to wear one in the stands, we've trawled the archives to find Australian strips have come a long way in the past two decades. 

While the Socceroos have often struggled for recognition in Australia, its not for want of trying with some of these stinkers. 

The vomit kit

This shirt looks like it was used to clean the toilets at Flemington on Melbourne Cup day. The Socceroos wore it during their 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign and, thankfully, never wore it again. 

Diamonds aren't forever

Adidas has been responsible for some of the world's most iconic strips. This is certainly not one of them. Three diamond-shaped stripes adorned a fluorescent yellow kit Australia wore against Ghana in 1995. Luckily for all involved, Twitter wasn't around back then.

Thick stripes

Was Adidas using the relatively remote Australia as a cutting room floor? Milan Ivanovic parades what would be a decent enough kit, were it not for the three thick stripes starting at the top left shoulder and crashing through to the bottom right short leg. And doesn't he look happy about it? 

Fifty shades of blue

One of the least commented-on aspects of the Socceroos' disastrous 4-0 loss to Germany in the first game of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, and perhaps for good reason, was the garish 'away' kit the boys had to wear. A dark blue shorts and torso met a lighter blue strip across the shoulders, with splashes of yellow here and there in what we can only imagine was an homage to Australia's actual colours. 

Don't worry Lucas, we can't work it out either. 

Not easy being green

Again, it's as though Adidas compiled all the elements of a classic kit - the stripes, block-letter numbers, flashy under-arm panels - then threw them together randomly for the Socceroos. So it was that the the turn of the millennium ushered in this green ensemble - modelled by now Melbourne Victory coach, Kevin Muscat. From the multiple numbers, to the stripes being too low, it just doesn't feel right.