If you care to have a look at legendary New England shoesmith Sebago’s timeline then you’d probably see something along the lines of… 1946 – They make their first…
If you’re looking at this site you have to love corduroy. Them’s the rules. It’s item 4 of the Proper Mag Manifesto (following on from: Wearing jackets in…
Back with a bang, and layered up ready for that pinnacle of seasons – Autumn; the ‘Knowledgable Knights of The Northern Quarter’ Oi Polloi have got some new…
No, I still don’t actually know how to say it either but I do know that these are some are the best things we’ve seen so far this week. And we…
Whilst enjoying my own photographic exhibition in Berlin at the start of the year at the SEEK trade-show (ooh get me) I happened upon this TSPTR Peanuts gear and…
2014’s Tour de France has finished. The barriers have been cleared off the Champs-Élysées, the lycra-clad, gurning frenchmen are back in their normal clothes, smoking tiny cigarettes and…
Every bugger needs a bit o’ Barbour. Nope, this isn’t their new tag line. The marketing agency threw it out on grounds of it having too similar a…
Now I can’t tell you I know that much about this brand (other than they’re Korean & dead friendly) but after spying an impressive fur-lined parka on Oi…
I’d go as far as to say that the chambray shirt is one of the most timeless items of clothing of all… time. They’ll never not look good. …
Tennis Versus Football? World Cup Versus Wimbledon? No bloody competition is it? Strong likelihood is that if you’re reading this on here, that footy is (or at least…
Oh no, not more tee shirts? Yes! And coach jackets! Soz for shouting but with the World Cup getting underway what better opportunity to talk about some baseball related…
You wait aaaaaaaaages for adidas to get some classic white and green trainers reissued and then three come along at once (not at once tbf but let’s market).…
Making the ‘Greatest Comeback Since Lazarus” (copyright The Late, Great Sid Waddell) Oi Polloi bring back in house label Cottonopolis’ Swiss Army Shirt, in one new fabric…
Normally I’d agree that classics should just be left as they are, but not in this instance. These modified Sanders chukkas that Mark McNairy has done are spot-on. …
Everything in life is about balance isn’t it? I mean where would we be without balance? Ying without a bit of yang just doesn’t work does it? Balance…
What a load of balls, modern football is, isn’t it? Designed and built by numbers, industrial estate stadia; overpriced all-ticket matches; souped up stewarding, we all know…
Every #menswear enthusiast should have a pair of plain indigo jeans with no logos or owt on that they can wear whenever, wherever (yeah – don’t close the…
“….Be running up that road; Be running up that hill; With no problems…” you bloody would have been Mrs Bush if you’d have worn some of this new…
If Manchester menswear mecca/Mecca [sic] Oi Polloi were a religion like Islam (which it’s not, obviously), whose foundations were based on five pillars of wisdom (which they probably…
Just like Factory Records, rain and sneering at outsiders, Oi Polloi is a Mancunian institution. Being from a town just down the road from Manchester means we’ve watched…
There are people out there who would say “I’ve got some new jeans” and there are others who would favour the phrase “I’ve got me some new denims”.…