With the November window of the Nations Championship starting this weekend, Planet Rugby has run the rule over all 12 playing kits, scoring each for fear, fashion, cultural fidelity, build quality and what the team has actually won in it. France top the pile and England, brace yourselves, prop up the table.

The top line

Everybody has an opinion on a rugby shirt, usually a firmer one than they have on the breakdown law, so we thought we’d settle it. Each side has been marked out of ten on five measures: fear factor, which is whether the shirt looks like trouble

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