Gustav Temple reviews the new sartorial tome by Rose Callahan and Nathaniel Adams. First there was I am Dandy (2013), followed by We Are Dandy (2016). We seem to have skipped You Are Dandy (because you are probably not) and now, thirteen years after the first collection, They Are Dandy hits bookshelves across the world.… … Keep Reading
DR Congo’s ‘superfan’ will be cheering on his team from Mexico, after being detained on spurious visa charges, while a substitute takes his place as Congo’s living sculpture. A familiar fixture has been taking its place among the hordes of cheering fans for every match played by the Democratic Republic of The Congo in the… … Keep Reading
Miss Martindale’s short-lived column for the Chap provided much needed advice, in 2004, on how young ladies should dress and comport themselves. Welcome to the Ladies’ Smoking Room – and you must welcome me too, for with my appointment as your Resident Ladies’ Columnist, I make my debut into the world of the Woman Worker.… … Keep Reading
Over one hundred flaneurs and flaneuses gathered under inclement skies to take their first bold steps in Winter. Photos by Xavier Buendia Sunday 23rd November 2025 was a day when history was made. Hitherto, the participants in the Grand Flaneur Walk had only had the courage to set forth on the saunter sans purpose under… … Keep Reading
Zack Pinsent has been around the Chap since he was 17 years old and, when he had just left school, and has now become a very successful maker of Regency clothing, as well as organiser and host of the Grand Regency Ball at Brighton’s Royal Pavilion. So here we are in your Brighton tailoring atelier,… … Keep Reading
Minerva Miller steps out into the Tuscan sun with a gaggle of Italian, British and French devotees to dandyism. On a visit to Rome in April of this year, the Queen joked that she and the King enjoyed ‘any excuse to be in Italy’, and after a visit to Tuscany you can see her point.… … Keep Reading
Gustav Temple road tests a waistcoat made by artificial intelligence. Tailor Haddon Pratt of Pratt & Prasad with the finished coat of the two-piece suit “My suit was made by artificial intelligence” sounds like a line uttered by a non-humanoid character from a dystopian science fiction film set in the distant future. But this is… … Keep Reading
Holly Rose Swinyard meets Vintage Egyptologist Colleen Darnell to discuss Egyptology, vintage fashion and 1920s women. What was it about Egyptology that originally interested you and how come you decided to take the fashion of the period on as well? Egyptology is my main field of academic research, so I received both my BA and… … Keep Reading
Gustav Temple treads in Bogie’s footsteps to be fitted with a Borsalino Fedora. “When your head says one thing and your whole life says another, your head always loses.”Humphrey Bogart’s line from Key Largo (1948) rang in my head as I mounted the steps to Burlington Arcade in London. I may have been a long… … 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… … 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
Edward Sexton was the trailblazer of traditional British tailoring who rescued the image of Savile Row not once, but twice, writes Freddie Anderson. Edward Sexton’s journey of changing the suiting folklore of Savile Row began on Valentine’s Day in 1969. With business partner Tommy Nutter, they originally used the appellation of Nutters of Savile Row. Nutter… … Keep Reading