Update! Dr Beckmanns Grease strain remover worked a treat on the sweatshirt. Took two applications and subsequent washes, but totally removed the stain! 
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The good Dr’s washing machine cleaner is ace too for all you domesticity fans out there.
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This is the stuff that makes the world go round. I’m trying it. Had a lot of flint to deal with recently 
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Surely a balearic cleaning products thread is an inevitability now?
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Ordered one just now. A brand new YMC sweatshirt acquired a grease spot on about day 2 of ownership. Hoping the good Dr B can sort me out.
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whispers Oi Polloi is wellgosh mkII?
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Liam’s not happy.
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Good riddance. Their customer service is diabolical.
They’ve gone downhill since they left Tib Street. Even worse since they were sold to JD.
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some decent offerings in the albam sale
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We use the cleaning sheets too 
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Yes they stopped putting measurements on the site and they started to sell a lot of well everyday items.
I don’t think they have ever recovered from the very bad business decision to open the London store which went bust. Can’t blame them for getting into bed with JD, it was that or not exist, as they managed to turn out a lot of their own brand which I think had been a goal from day one.
They have had a great run and they changed things a hell of a lot
, them and Eleven Clothing were the best this century. Fjall Raven pretty much owe them everything they sell in this country, ditto Mephisto and lots more.
Maybe they will do something else, SS’s Wyse brand was pretty much what a lot of the High Street is doing now.
There is a quote in Casuals published in 2003 from a Manchester United fan saying the scene was dead and hadn’t moved on. Maybe it was but Eleven and Oi Polloi booted it up the arse and kick started it.
It has done its job; shown the path and set menswear as it is today.
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I think that is too simplistic a reason for Oi Polloi going.
They themselves admit they made some bad business decisions and this was before any lockdowns. It isn’t like JD were any kind of competitor, JD wasn’t selling Beams Plus 50% less then Oi Polloi were.
So they were going under until JD gave then a lifeline. The last couple of years has effectively been JD with the Oi Polloi name stuck over it. It wasn’t an independent. The OP model of independent store or they way they chose to run it didn’t work after a period of time. Just like Eleven with a few bad decisions went awry. And Eleven really was tops 2001-2007.
I’m not an accountant but were Oi Polloi even with JD behind them making a profit, they weren’t going to run it forever if it was making a loss.
Every time you try something on in an independent and that get it online a few quid cheaper from a major you are driving another nail in the coffin of independent shops. We all do it. Bit like when people look around and wonder why hardly anything is made in UK, yes because we looked to get it cheaper elsewhere.
So best thing to do is to thank NL and SS for what they have done, and support true independent stores and those who manufacture in the UK.
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Unpopular opinion.
I bought a few things in there over the years. Their customer service wasn’t up to much. I’m not saying I needed to be fawned over, but at least show some fucking interest. Perhaps I was unlucky enough to catch them on multiple bad days.
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Ah not just me then.
Kind of chronological list of stuff they stocked/worked on I thought was good from the true independent years:
Fjall Raven
Jacoform
Rohan Collaboration
Arrow Moccasins
Engineered Garments
Saint James
Yuketen
Batten Sportswear
Beams Plus
Norse Projects Overhead Smock Colloboration, still being copied today.
National Athletic Goods
Saffrasas
Tender Shirts
Arpenteur
Lee Jumbo Cord collaboration
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Passed the shop in the NQ a million times, never went in, never appealed to me at all
Some nice stuff here from Magenta skateboards
https://shop.magentaskateboards.com/?fbclid=PAAaZBiqK1f0BNvZkE-VsKBDdOgxdIneptCWGB_nRwdLEvqETKAxkDxpd7-DY
New Red Wings have dropped
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