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NEWSChap Olympiad Tickets ReleasedTickets are finally available for this year's monumental sporting occasion for the athletically inept The Chap Saved by its ReadersAn appeal to save this gentlemen's periodical from going under has been an outstanding success Tweed Pedal PushersHundreds of tweed-clad cyclists descended on Savile Row to set off on the country's very first Tweed Run. India’s Facial Hair CutbacksIndia’s legendary moustaches are disappearing as India enters the clean-shaven digital age. The Modern-day RafflesA self-styled aristocrat is in chokey, after his hi-tech £229 million bank heist was foiled by a computer glitch. Get Tweed. Wear Tweed. Drive.On January 1st, three brave, intrepid and immaculately attired chaps set off on an epic 3,000 mile journey across the Indian Subcontinent. Fastest Tache in BritainA 24-year-old English chap with a superb moustache is building a rocket that will help set a new land speed record. Not Really Made in EnglandSoho tailor Tony Lutwyche has launched a sartorial campaign to stop manufacturers faslely labelling products ‘Made in England’. WHAT IS THE CHAP?
The Chap takes a wry look at the modern world through the steamed-up monocle of a more refined age, occasionally getting its sock suspenders into a twist at the unspeakable vulgarity of the twenty-first century. Since 1999, the Chap has been championing the rights of that increasingly marginalised and discredited species of Englishman - the gentleman. The Chap believes that a society without courteous behaviour and proper headwear is a society on the brink of moral and sartorial collapse, and it seeks to reinstate such outmoded but indispensable gestures as hat doffing, giving up one's seat to a lady and regularly using a trouser press. "All men are equal. All men, that is, who possess umbrellas." |