The All Blacks Have A New Jersey

It's more than just a new jersey. 

The brand new All Blacks' Rugby World Cup uniform is being touted as a second skin for the players. 

After pouring a quarter of a million euros into testing across two years, the German kit manufacturers adidas have unveiled in Auckland unveil a two-way woven carbon fibre-infused garment designed to stretch in a way that mimics the players' skinfolds.

Adidas reports the Dynamic Stretch Analysis (DSA) technology that has gone into the jersey is used in the aerospace industry to test where aircraft wings should be reinforced.

"What we've done is worked the fabric in a certain way so that the stretch is duplicating the skin stretch," said Francois Tabard, category director for rugby at adidas' HQ in Herzogenaurach, Germany.

The fabric the jerseys are made out of is used in high-tech sail-making due to its superior strength.

Most senior All Blacks had visited the company's Bavarian innovation centre in recent years to undergo DSA scanning, Tabard said. Their input had been vital in producing a garment tailored to meet their every need.

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