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Cooking For Chaps
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Cooking For Chaps

The Chap, in collaboration with expert cook Clare Gabbett-Mulhallen, has written a cook book aimed at reviving the lost art of British cookery. Cooking For Chaps trawls through the greatest British recipes from the last 200 years to bring you the finest selection of meals to prepare for breakfast, elevenses, lunch, afternoon tea, high tea,… … Keep Reading

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Abercrombie & Fitch Protest

The Chap staged a peaceful protest against Abercrombie & Fitch at midday on Monday 29th September 2014. Some fifty extremely well-dressed Chaps and Chapettes descended on Savile Row to express their distaste at the opening of a children’s ready-to-wear (or ready-to-throw-in-the-dustbin, judging by the manufacturing quality) clothing outlet, on a street which has remained the… … Keep Reading

Oscar Wilde
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The Trials of Oscar Wilde

Following a 43-date UK Tour and sell-out run at St James Theatre, European Arts Company is delighted to announce that The Trials of Oscar Wilde is transferring to Trafalgar Studios for a strictly limited four-week run. The production will open on Monday 13th October, in celebration of Oscar Wilde’s 160th birthday that same week, and… … Keep Reading

Sir Donald Sinden
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RIP Donald Sinden

As a tribute to great British actor Sir Donald Sinden, who died this morning aged 90, we reproduce his last interview, which appeared in issue 69 of The Chap. Michael “Atters” Attree met Sir Donald in his enchanting period house overlooking the wilds of the Kent countryside, to discuss Richard Burton, Lord Alfred Douglas and… … Keep Reading

Danny Appreciation Day
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Dapper Danny and His Gang

A group of American schoolboys all wore suits, ties and hats as a show of support to a younger pupil at their school who was being bullied for his speech impediment. Danny Keefe, aged 6, has a condition called Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS), a motor speech disorder that prevents his brain from coordinating properly… … Keep Reading

Mr B in the Telegraph
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Michael Gove is Chap Hop Fan

The Daily Telegraph has reported a curious affiliation by Education Secretary Michael Gove for the works of Mr. B the Gentleman Rhymer. It seems that Mr. Gove, when asked by another newspaper to name his favourite musical artistes, professed to being “strangely addicted to chap hop rappers Professor Elemental, Mr B the Gentleman Rhymer and… … Keep Reading

Doctor Who Boot
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Doctor’s Boots Not Dr Marten’s

In its haste to trumpet the arrival of the twelfth Time Lord, the BBC made a huge howler by attributing most of his items of clothing to the wrong manufacturer. As reported by The Chap in good faith, having sourced its information from the usually reliable diktats released by Auntie, the Doctor’s boots were believed… … Keep Reading

Peter Capaldi
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New Doctor’s Outfit Revealed

The BBC has released the first picture of Peter Capaldi wearing the new Doctor’s costume. Capaldi’s outfit as the Twelfth Time Lord will consist of a dark blue Crombie coat with red lining, dark blue trousers, a white shirt and black Dr. Marten brogues. Lord only knows what costume designer Howard Burden was thinking when… … Keep Reading

Jeremy Paxman
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BBC Remains Beardless

Jeremy Paxman has once again caused ripples across the world’s beard wearing community by shaving off his beard, having set Newsnight viewers a-chattering last year when he returned to work from his hols, still wearing his lounging-about-in-the-Med facial plumage. Mr. Paxman is clearly enjoying the excitement caused by minor changes in his facial appearance (although… … Keep Reading

Sherlock Holmes
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The Case of the Missing Overcoat

Despite being set in the modern age, the BBC’s current production of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories, Sherlock, has been just as fastidious on the costume front as period pieces were. Benedict Cumberbatch’s coat is the sole piece of costume retained for the character from the original 2009 pilot episode. The Belstaff ‘Milford’ Coat is… … Keep Reading

Malik Amir Mohammad Khan Afridi
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Man Risks Death to Keep Moustache

A Pakistani man is determined to maintain his impressive lip weasel despite death threats from the Taliban. Malik Amir Mohammad Khan Afridi, a resident of the northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province on the Afghan border, is currently in hiding with his moustache. Mr. Afridi’s face furniture originally measured 30 inches from tip to tip, easily making it… … Keep Reading

Patricia Hammond
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Neapolitan Nights

Neapolitan Nights – Patricia Hammond and Matt Redman 2013 Patricia Hammond, the silky-voiced singer often described as the Canadian Nightingale, familiar to readers of The Chap as the singer with headline act Albert Ball’s Flying Aces at the Grand Anarcho-Dandyist Ball last December, has recorded an exclusive track for The Chap, to coincide with her… … Keep Reading

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