The Chap Magazine

I know nothing at all about The Chap magazine, but check out what’s in the Autumn issue; there’s not a thing wrong about any of this:

• An explanation of the history, tenets and practical applications of Bartitsu – the gentleman’s martial art devised in 1899 by Edward Barton-Wright
• The stirring biography of George Hangar, 18th century rake and eccentric colonel
• The 2008 Goodwood Revival – a photographic encounter with well-dressed motoring enthusiasts
• Amateur Warfare – Donald Twain on the continued popularity of this ancient pastime, despite the progress of technology and science
• The Sartoracle- our new gentlemen’s adviser, Savile Row’s Patrick Grant, on trouser pressing, tweed caps and waistcoats
• Robert Chilcott gets James Mason’s view on London in the swinging sixties
• Professional Dress: the changing fashions of a priest-about-town
• Rum Coves: Neil Ridley on the history and naval connections of Caribbean rum and its spicy neighbours
• The campest cast member of the original TV series of Brideshead Revisited, Nickolas Grace, tackles the Chap questionnaire
• Kipper & Grape’s World of Sport compares Twenty20 cricket with its more traditional ancestor
• Plus: Boris Johnson, Benjamin Disraeli, Pyjama theories, Jay-Z and Am I Chap?

Disraeli! It may be an affectation but it’s one I can get behind.

Latest Issue of Chap Magazine [TheChap.net]