NEWS
Royal Opera House Puts Polyester on Bill
New uniforms issued to front-of-house staff at the Royal Opera House make a mockery of sartorial standards
Croatia Persecutes Pipe Smoking Chaps
Signs around a park on an island off the coast of Dubrovnik discriminate openly against Chaps who smoke pipes
Museum Director Sparks Neckwear Crisis
Foreign V&A director denounces the decline of the British tie, while forgetting to tie his own
BBC Dresses Doctor in Chinese Tweed
Auntie has snubbed the Harris Tweed industry by outsourcing the jackets worn by Matt Smith in Doctor Who to China
Most Revolting Shoe Ever Made
Miuccia Prada has managed to create a variation on the brogue with no aesthetic value whatsoever
Churchill's Cigar Airbrushed Out
A Second World War museum has doctored a poster of Churchill in an attempt to convince children that he never smoked cigars
WHAT IS THE CHAP?
The Chap takes a wry look at the modern world through the steamed-up monocle of a more refined age, occasionally getting its sock suspenders into a twist at the unspeakable vulgarity of the twenty-first century.
Since 1999, the Chap has been championing the rights of that increasingly marginalised and discredited species of Englishman - the gentleman. The Chap believes that a society without courteous behaviour and proper headwear is a society on the brink of moral and sartorial collapse, and it seeks to reinstate such outmoded but indispensable gestures as hat doffing, giving up one's seat to a lady and regularly using a trouser press.
What do ties matter, Jeeves, at a time like this?
There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter.
P.G. Wodehouse
ADAM ANT PART 2
AM I A CHAP?
