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| Editor | Gustav Temple |
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| Former editors | Vic Darkwood |
| Categories | Men's lifestyle and humour |
| Frequency | Quarterly (formerly bi-monthly) |
| Format | B5 |
| Founded | 1999 |
| Country | UK |
| Language | English |
| Website | thechap |
The Chap is a British humorous men's lifestyle magazine published quarterly. It was founded in 1999 by Gustav Temple and Vic Darkwood, and is still edited by Temple.
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. 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 everyday wearing of hats.
The Chap has a comic and eccentric twist on this. It jokingly espouses its own unique lifestyle philosophy called anarcho-dandyism[1] and has its own 10-point manifesto, The Chap Manifesto,[2] 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.
- ^ "Steady on, Chaps". London Particulars. 8 December 2010. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
- ^ "The Chap Manifesto - The Chap".