Now that Goodwood Revival has swept its grounds for the year, where else is a chap or chapette to go in search of the vintage glamour of yesteryear? Where can a gentleman don his opera cape, top hat and walking cane, and a lady her finest party frock and feather boa, so they can mingle… … Keep Reading
After a brief hiatus, welcome to the Summer/Autumn 24 edition of Britain’s favourite gentleman’s quarterly. After lying low for the summer of 2024, due to reasons mainly to do with technical webular matters since resolved, The Chap Magazine is back for the autumn with a spring in its step, vim in its tank and a… … Keep Reading
Colin Cameron touches the Douglas Hayward-constructed hem of the great British actor, to learn which of his films Michael Caine considers masterpieces and which ones he only made to fund some of his residences. We know you as Sir Michael Caine, Oscar winner, but you began life as Maurice Joseph Micklewhite junior, which morphed into… … Keep Reading
Over a hundred dapper chaps and chapettes sauntered sans purpose through London. On Sunday 5th May 2024, a crowd assembled at the junction of Piccadilly and Jermyn Street, London W1. Usually the only notable aspect of this corner is the life-size statue of the great dandy Beau Brummell, but on this day even the Beau… … 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
Now that Goodwood Revival has swept its grounds for the year, where else is a chap or chapette to go in search of the vintage glamour of yesteryear? Where can a gentleman don his opera cape, top hat and walking cane, and a lady her finest party frock and feather boa, so they can mingle…
After a brief hiatus, welcome to the Summer/Autumn 24 edition of Britain’s favourite gentleman’s quarterly. After lying low for the summer of 2024, due to reasons mainly to do with technical webular matters since resolved, The Chap Magazine is back for the autumn with a spring in its step, vim in its tank and a…
New department to our online store collects the best of gentlemanly literature. Our webular emporium has benefitted from a new category of product, namely Chap Books. The shelves of this category are already filled with books we consider suitable reading material for Chaps and Chapettes, and more tomes are being added weekly. The range is…
Gustav Temple takes a saunter down memory lane to the nineties with Matthew De Abaitua. One can imagine Leadenall Market during the time of Charles Dickens, bustling with butchers, costermongers, blacksmiths and the odd lonely lawyer’s scrivener looking for love among the packing crates. Leadenhall’s Victorian cobbles stood in for Diagon Alley in the first…
