The Mancunian Way: Northern peacocks
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Here's the Mancunian Way for today: Hello, You know Oi Polloi don’t you? It’s that colourful looking Northern Quarter menswear shop where you can buy all manner of fishermen's jumpers, ‘bulbous German orthopaedic shoes’ and quilted Barbour body warmers.
News of its closure was met with horror by my colleague Damon Wilkinson - a man who is no stranger to a Clarks cornish pasty shoe and a salmon-pink jumper.
He described it as a ‘devastating blow for men who like to wear brown shoes and Scandinavian cagoules’. But as he has discovered, it may also be a turning point for the Northern Quarter itself.
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