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The Chap

The Chap is a British humorous men's lifestyle magazine published quarterly. It was founded in 1999 by Gustav Temple and Vic Darkwood, and is still edited by Temple.

This article is about the magazine. For the London-based band, see The Chap (band).

Editor

Gustav Temple

Vic Darkwood

Quarterly (formerly bi-monthly)

B5

1999

UK

English

The magazine proposes that men everywhere return to a more gentlemanly way of life by rejecting modern vulgarity and careless, shabby or faddish dress sense through the restoration of the lifestyle, habits, manners and traditional fashion sense of a mid-20th century (or earlier) British chap. Thus it advises men to wear traditional British suits and other similar well-tailored clothing, especially those cut from tweed; to keep their trousers sharply pressed; to be impeccably groomed; to wear quality handmade shoes, brightly polished; and to return to the everyday wearing of hats.


The Chap has a comic and eccentric twist on this. Tongue firmly in cheek, it espouses its own unique lifestyle philosophy called anarcho-dandyism[1] and has its own 10-point manifesto, The Chap Manifesto,[2] which mandates that a chap is to smoke a pipe, is to doff his hat when good manners require, is never to wear what it calls pantaloons de Nîmes, and to sport a moustache (never a beard), among others.

in 2003, the Chap Uprising – against what they see as modern living's vulgarity in general;

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in 2004, the Victoria & Albert Museum Protest – a protest "against the pointless intrusion by art pieces into public areas";[13]

contemporary

in 2004, Civilise the City – a walk through central London whose aim was "to draw attention to the appalling lack of gentlemanly services available on Britain's high streets";

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in 2006, the Tate Modern Protest – against installations;[15] and

modern art

in 2012, the Siege of Savile Row – against the proposed opening of an store at the centre of traditional English gentleman's tailoring, Savile Row.[16][17]

Abercrombie and Fitch

Official website

The Chap Olympiad official website

The 11th annual Chap Olympiad (2015) in pictures

from The Independent from 2003

There's a good Chap

from 3:AM Magazine

The Vulgarian Invasions - interview with Gustav Temple

from the Sabotage Times

Well Trousered, Sir: Gustav Temple Talks All Things Chap

at the Wayback Machine (archived 10 October 2012)

Article on The Chap and steampunk from the Evening Standard