With a stadium in the works and a recently redesigned crest, the next stage in the evolution of D.C. United’s identity is a new kit. Although the uniforms aren’t slated to be officially unveiled until an event on Saturday, Sports Illustrated published an early peek of the jersey… and part of the inside.

As SI notes, Adidas rather missed the mark on the collar tape, bungling the city’s motto—you know the one that graces our license plates—into “Without Representation Taxation.”

This was presumably part of the team’s effort to coordinate with DC Vote and advocate for statehood. They tweeted: “Definitely not how we expected to get #DCEquality featured in Sports Illustrated.”

“It’s been great to work with DC Vote, and I’m all for equality for D.C.,” coach Ben Olsen told The Washington Post in May. “District statehood and budget autonomy make so much sense.”

Meanwhile, another part of the jersey looks kind of familiar, too.

Certainly we don’t own the rights to black-and-white silhouettes of city monuments. But, as pointed out by DCist contributors Pablo Maurer and Andrew Wiseman, the resemblance is pretty uncanny—particularly to the original version of the logo (which was designed back in 2004 by Sam Park and updated in 2009 by Lynne Venart).

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