The answer to the question about Spurs is 'before 1898'.
It's clear that fashions in kits change - Arsenal's white sleeves are thought to have been inspired by the groundsman wearing a white shirt under a sleeveless red sweater while mowing the pitch; Liverpool did not go into red shorts until 1964 - Chelsea went into all blue at about the same time, suggesting that coloured shorts had not been so readily available.
I like the two green and white kits but not the yellow one - I don't see any need for an Argyle kit (home or away) to have any colours others than green, black and white. I also prefer the socks to match the shirt and not the shorts - but that is just being fussy isn't it? The two kits at either side are excellent - so much better than this year's two.
The current shade of green at Argyle (from 2001) was chosen because it was thought to go well with blue denim in leisure wear. I always thought that the correct shade of Argyle green - used from after the Second World War until 2001 - albeit in various configurations - was Kelly green - helpfully modelled here:
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It goes perfectly well with denim:
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However, shades of green are obviously a specialist subject:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shades_of_green