One thing, properly
MrPolo makes the knitted polo. Not a range that happens to include knitwear — knitwear is the entire point, and the polo is the only shape we are interested in.
It started from a gap. The shirts we wanted either cost four times what they should, or were jersey polos pretending to be knitted ones. There was very little in between, and nothing at all in between made in India.
Why knitted
A knit falls with the body instead of sitting on it, and the stripes and colour blocks are worked into the fabric rather than printed on top. Run your hand across a colour change and the texture carries straight through. That is the whole argument for making them this way.
Small runs, and what that costs you
Ten colours at a time, made in Mumbai. When a colour sells through, it either returns or it retires. We would rather retire a shade than dilute it into something safer that sells for longer.
The honest cost of that: the thing you liked may not be there in six months. The honest benefit: nothing in the range is there to fill a gap on a rail.
The fit
Regular. Not oversized, not slim. Straight through the body, with a soft shoulder and a collar that rolls rather than standing to attention. S to XL across every piece. Between sizes, take the smaller one — knit gives.
How we would rather work
Free shipping, because charging for delivery on a knitted shirt is a way of pretending it costs less than it does. Cash on delivery, because plenty of people still prefer it. Seven-day exchanges with the first one on us, because sizing knitwear off a screen is genuinely hard and that should be our problem, not yours. And a real person on the other end of the email, usually within a day.
Mumbai, Maharashtra. Shipping across India.