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Chap Silver Jubilee

The Chap launches Kickstarter campaign to produce a range of 25th anniversary heirlooms. This year The Chap Magazine will have been in publication for 25 years, having launched in 1999. In this special Jubilee year, we would like to mark these last 25 years with a series of commemorative products. These will range from a… … Keep Reading

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The Fourth Grand Flaneur Walk

2024’s saunter sans purpose also marks 25 years of The Chap Magazine. This year sees two very special milestones for The Chap Magazine. We mark our Silver Jubilee, having first published in 1999, and we shall sally forth on the fourth Grand Flaneur Walk on Sunday 5th May 2024. Assembling as usual at midday beside… … Keep Reading

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CHAP Winter 23

The new edition is spearheaded by chap-hop superstar Mr. B The Gentleman Rhymer. In his first full-length interview with The Chap, Mr. B expounds on his early years in the ghetto of East Cheam, Surrey, where he gained twin passions for British sitcoms such as Hancock’s Half Hour and rockabilly music, before being turned on… … Keep Reading

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CHAP Autumn 23

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

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Chap/Stocker

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

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The Folklore Edition

CHAP Summer 23 delves into the heart of British folklore. This Summer sees the Chap taking its first look at the folklore of Britain, delving into the heart of ancient Albion via Green Men, pagan priests and folk horror films. Our starting point is of course The Wicker Man, which celebrates 50 years since its… … Keep Reading

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The Third Grand Flaneur Walk

Another successful saunter sans purpose through the sunny streets of Old London Town. On Sunday 14th May, just one week after the coronation of Charles III, a very different kind of event, yet one steeped in as much ritual, tradition and protocol, took place. The Grand Flaneur Walk was not placing a crown of gold… … Keep Reading

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The New Edition

CHAP Spring 23 takes a mediaeval slant on the gentlemanly life. Our new edition takes as its starting point George RR Martin’s televised epic Game of Thrones, by meeting Paddy Considine, star of the recent prequel House of the Dragon. Mr. Considine recounts his uncertain beginning as an actor, and how his friendship with British… … Keep Reading

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The Chap Watch

Gustav Temple meets The Chap’s new timepiece collaborators, Jerome Robert and Anneke Short, founders of the Camden Watch Company. We first encountered the Camden Watch Company in 2017, when they had recently launched their ambitious company into a crowded market. The original aim of the brand was to use the founders’ extensive knowledge of design… … Keep Reading

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The New Edition

CHAP Winter 22, meets the great Michael Caine, along with Kings Akhenaten and Charles III. If there is ever a particular theme to an edition of The Chap, this theme usually finds itself towards the end of the assembly line, rather than at the beginning. And so it was that, once all the t’s had been… … Keep Reading

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The Sartorial Monarch

Gustav Temple celebrates King Charles III’s unique take on the Royal wardrobe. Now that Prince Charles has acceded to the throne as King Charles III, no-one in the United Kingdom is in any doubt that he has been preparing for the role for decades. Sartorially, too, Charles looks set to become one of our best-dressed… … Keep Reading

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Latest Edition: Summer 22

The Summer edition takes pole position at the starting line. Heading the cast of our latest edition, CHAP Summer 22, is none other than former Formula 1 world champion Damon Hill, who spoke eloquently to us about his father Graham Hill, playboy racing drivers, moustaches, the Royal Navy’s drinking habits and enlightenment behind the wheel… … Keep Reading

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