[Purple & Green]

Does anyone know when Hibs first wore away colours at a game? Was it really in a European game or did they wear them long before that?

Secondly, is there any rhyme or reason to the away colours? I've heard that purple was chosen as a colour as a quirk of fate. Someone found a set of purple strips in the 60s and assumed them to have been hibs colours, but what happened was that the old blue shorts had been washed with the old red tops from the public trials and the result was purple tops and shorts. These got tossed to the side, only to be discovered 20 odd years later.

The only other story I've heard about purple is that Tom Harts wife liked the colour. To be honest, I find that hard to believe.