The Chap will celebrate 25 years of publication with our grandest party ever on 12th October.
There have been many ‘nights of a thousand waistcoats’ over the years, but 2024 is the year for the grandest chap party of all. This year we celebrate twenty-five years on magazine racks and doormats, and thus shall be pulling out all the stops when it comes to marking this momentous milestone. On 12th October 2024 The Grand Silver Jubilee Ball will fling open its doors to those who have revelled before, those who wish to revel anew and those who were too young to revel the first time around.
The venue is in London, in an area called Balham. Not, admittedly, the sort of locale one might associate with balls, grand or otherwise, but this easily accessible borough just happens to possess one of London’s finest vintage venues. The precise location will be revealed closer to the date, but suffice it to say that chaps and chapettes will delight in the voluminous areas they will have in which to socialise, dance, rubberneck or simply stand at ease looking fabulous.
There will, naturally, be entertainment. There will be musicians, cabaret artistes, purveyors of bons mots and amusing repartee, and – please be warned – there may even be speeches. This is, after all, The Chap’s 25th anniversary and a time for reflection, though we pledge to keep any such orations mercifully brief. The principal purpose of the evening will be for guests to mingle, catch up with old acquaintances, dance, flirt, show off their finest outfits and drink as much champagne as flows from the cellars.
