The Chap has refined its image, expanded its editorial reach and broadened its horizons. On this "relaunch" the editor said:īritain’s longest-running gentlemen’s periodical has relaunched, with impeccable timing. The Chap was published bi-monthly from 1999 to May 2017.įrom issue #92 published in May 2017, the magazine has been published quarterly, has double the number of pages, and has been graphically redesigned. It returned to B5 to reduce printing costs. Additionally, Viz Magazine financially supported the magazine.
To keep going The Chap asked its readership and subscribers to donate funds. In May 2009, the magazine nearly closed due to financial issues arising from moving from B5 to the larger A4 format. The magazine is printed in B5 format, and originally was published in that format as well. Its current literary editor is the author and historian Alexander Larman. Notable contributors to The Chap include Michael "Atters" Attree who conducts interviews with those known for their gentlemanly or dandyish ways, and Miss Martindale, a prominent spokesperson of Aristasia, who from 2003 to 2005 wrote the Ladies' Column.
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The magazine has often been very satirical or whimsical, with content such as a series chronicling "A Year in Catford" and "Amusing Monograph as to the Various Pleasures and Diversions Afforded by One's Valet". The Chap also features articles on a diverse range of things related to Chappism, such as tales of First World War and Second World War military derring-do, stories or tips on unusual ways to travel when abroad, or the late Victorian and Edwardian martial art of Bartitsu. I recently conducted a reader survey and one of the questions was “Should we get rid of ‘ Am I Chap?’” The response was unanimously against, in other words, despite the criticism, readers love that column. The Chap is a bit like a club – there are lots of cosy in-jokes and references, though we also like to display affectionate disdain for some of the readers who send in their photos dressed as “Chaps”, merely to remind everyone that we actually believe in dressing properly or not at all. For instance, the "Am I Chap" section sees people sending in photos of themselves dressed in vintage attire, to which the magazine's editors almost always comment on derisively in a very withering, but humorous, fashion. The Chap is predominantly a mixture of articles on clothing, footwear and headwear on sport (mainly cricket and horse racing) on moustache grooming on polite manners and traditional British etiquette and on pipes and tobacco, all written in an anachronistic late-Victorian to mid-20th Century British style, interspersed with humorous jokes. Tongue firmly in cheek, it espouses its own unique lifestyle philosophy called anarcho- dandyism and has its own 10-point manifesto, The Chap Manifesto, which mandates that a chap is to smoke a pipe, is to doff his hat when good manners require, is never to wear what it calls pantaloons de Nîmes, and to sport a moustache ( never a beard), among others.įront cover of The Chap no. The Chap has a comic and eccentric twist on this. Thus it advises men to wear traditional British suits and other similar well-tailored clothing, especially those cut from tweed to keep their trousers sharply pressed to be impeccably groomed to wear quality handmade shoes, brightly polished and to return to the wearing of hats. The magazine proposes that men everywhere return to a more gentlemanly way of life by rejecting modern vulgarity and careless, shabby or faddish dress sense through the restoration of the lifestyle, habits, manners and traditional fashion sense of a mid-20th century (or earlier) British chap. It was founded in 1999 by Gustav Temple and Vic Darkwood, and is still edited by Temple. The Chap is a British humorous men's lifestyle magazine published quarterly.
For the London-based band, see The Chap (band).