The new Autumn issue of Britain’s favourite gentleman’s quarterly bills itself as the ‘Rebel Trouser’ edition. Gracing the cover of our 117th edition is former Clash bassist, fine artist and solo musician Paul Simonon, who reveals how he styled the Clash in the early days and the importance of trilbies and pin stripes in one… … Keep Reading
New addition to our online store purveys books directly and indirectly proceeding from The Chap stable. In the beginning, The Chap was a slim pamphlet only available in strange little bookshops that have since closed down or become chain stores. Once the publication began reaching the attention of more than a handful of peculiar people,… … Keep Reading
The costume designer for Oppenheimer travelled halfway around the world to get the right hat for Cillian Murphy. The recent release of Oppenheimer grabbed slightly more attention than a summer film release, partly by bizarrely being lumped in with simultaneous release Barbie, to the point where cinephiles were attending both films as a kind of… … Keep Reading
Titillating tidings of a new collaboration between silk maestro Geoff Stocker and this publication. Eastbourne Pier and fine silk headscarves are not bedfellows that immediately spring to mind. Yet on one damp day that purported to be during the English Springtime, this publication turned the salty slats of the wooden pier into the Silk Road… … Keep Reading
The second of three books published by Fourth Estate, The Chap Almanac picks up from where The Chap Manifesto left off, taking the budding anarcho-dandyist into the realm of the spiritual, the mystical and the philosophical. Each chapter is named after a Chappish astrological sign, from Morpheus to Dionysus via Sartorius and Antiquarius. From Tibetan … Keep Reading
Revolutionary Etiquette for the Modern Gentleman, declared this first tome from Temple & Darkwood, published by Fourth Estate in 2001. A later edition was published by The Book People, with a facsimile of the dust jacket on the hardcover - but this is the first edition from Fourth Estate, with a plain red cloth hardcover … Keep Reading
Published in 2015 by Kyle Books, this was the first and only co-authored Chap book with wine writer Olly Smith, who penned a drinks column in The Chap for several years. Drinking For Chaps is the ultimate bible for anyone serious about enjoying the art of drinking as much as enjoying the history and production … Keep Reading
A hardback tome published in 2011 by Beautiful Books, collecting the best of the photos and captions from the 'Am I Chap?' feature in the magazine, and adding a slew of new material. The various sub-species of Chap, from the country squire to the bohemian, are classified, while heroes of Chappism such as Terry-Thomas, Cary … Keep Reading
I still find the Eurostar really rather wonderful. You get on a train at St. Pancras and alight some two hours later at Le Gare Du Nord into a different world, where the attitudes, tastes, smells, people and culture are as different from London as sand is to salt. Undeniably, it is quite an anomalous… … Keep Reading
From the eleventh floor balcony of a hotel overlooking the Pacific Ocean, the horizon flashing with lightning, brassy wisps of Mariachi music wafting up from somewhere through the heat of the night, was the sense that we were definitely in Mexico. It had taken nearly 20 hours to reach this moment of Mexican awareness, though… … Keep Reading
On a recent trip to Rajasthan, I discovered that not only does India possess its famous wealth of history and architecture, but it is also one of the most natural habitats for the travelling Chap. My journey took me first to Delhi, only nine hours away by plane but, as soon as you land, the… … Keep Reading
The new Autumn issue of Britain’s favourite gentleman’s quarterly bills itself as the ‘Rebel Trouser’ edition. Gracing the cover of our 117th edition is former Clash bassist, fine artist and solo musician Paul Simonon, who reveals how he styled the Clash in the early days and the importance of trilbies and pin stripes in one…
New addition to our online store purveys books directly and indirectly proceeding from The Chap stable. In the beginning, The Chap was a slim pamphlet only available in strange little bookshops that have since closed down or become chain stores. Once the publication began reaching the attention of more than a handful of peculiar people,…
The costume designer for Oppenheimer travelled halfway around the world to get the right hat for Cillian Murphy. The recent release of Oppenheimer grabbed slightly more attention than a summer film release, partly by bizarrely being lumped in with simultaneous release Barbie, to the point where cinephiles were attending both films as a kind of…
Sandra Lawrence on the unique sartorial position held by the humble beret in the history of gentlemen’s style. The humble beret is unique in the sartorial spectrum in that, unlike so many unisex items, it truly can look good atop the head of any gender. It is less unique in that it can also look…
