20 Of The Best UK Independent Menswear Stores
With most shoppers today swayed by speed and convenience, fast fashion retailers and multi-brand online stores seem to be ruling the roost. But the heart of the boutique is still very much beating.
Providing truly personal customer service, select edits over heaving inventories of products, unique interiors, as well as the experiential aspect of shopping; independent menswear stores continue to offer something incomparable to even the most discerning of style enthusiasts.
Here’s our guide to the top 20 up and down (and back up again) the UK has to offer.
Oi Polloi (Manchester)
Established in Manchester in 2002, Oi Polloi was born after its two founders bonded over the idea of selling tie-dye Lacoste polo shirts. The shirts in question never quite materialised but the Northern independent, now with an outpost in London also, is still to be commended for its offering, which goes above and beyond the usual run-of-the-mill brands.
Included in the store’s unconventional catalogue of brands are Munich-based operation A Kind of Guise, Japanese workwear brand OrSlow, the store’s own brand label Cottonpolis, as well as accessories from the likes of Il Bussetto and Fisher Space Pens.
If you’re still not sated, pore over its blog for outfit guides, exclusive interviews with iconic personalities, reviews of independent films and local eateries, as well as dispatches from the staff’s far-flung travels.
Store Links
Web: oipolloi.com
Twitter: @oipolloi
Facebook: facebook.com/oipolloi
Instagram: oipolloi_of_cottonopolis
Contact Details
Address: 63 Thomas St, Manchester, Lancashire, M4 1LQ
Phone: 0161 831 7870
Trunk Clothiers (London)
Founded by Swedish-born Mats Klingberg in 2010, this unassuming Marylebone independent led a wave of men’s labels to set up shop on London’s Chiltern Street.
