Am I a Chap? (Temple)

[Tenorclef]

Just finished reading this wonderful little book and thought I would bring it to the attention of fellow loungers-

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Am-I-Chap-G...6814/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1304672831&sr=8-1

 

[BinkieBaumont]

Looks as if it has been re-issued this year!

There is also the Chap Manifesto to be obtained

 

[Edward]

The Manifesto is, I believe, out of print, but it can still be found on eBay. Dear Gustav's newer work is a new publication as of this year, and includes many past entrants to the magazine column of the same name alongside its sage sartorial advice. The 'Chap of the Year' contest (now cancelled) was designed to function as a promotional event for the book.

 

[BinkieBaumont]

I Just received my Copy, of the re-issued Am I Chap very upset that I was not in the Colonial Chaps Bit,I mean to say... I even arranged a bit of ankle flesh so they could ridicule me

 

[molly]

If you were named Gustav, I think Chap status is almost guaranteed from birth!

I used to pick up the magazine when living in the UK and from what i remember it had some alright articles, some seemed a bit more for amusement or novelty (thats the impression I have in my poor memory)

 

[BinkieBaumont]

The Chap Magazine, is available at a couple of bookshops in Melbourne, I used to get it from a bookstore in Paddington, Sydney, but they stopped stocking it there

 

[Derek Cavin]

Interesting.

 

[Rathdown]

I've been a chap my whole life (nanny had me in tweed diapers), and a reader since their first issue.

 

[Edward]

If you were named Gustav, I think Chap status is almost guaranteed from birth!

I used to pick up the magazine when living in the UK and from what i remember it had some alright articles, some seemed a bit more for amusement or novelty (thats the impression I have in my poor memory)

The Chap's features are often written tongue in cheek, and aimed at a section of the vintage scene over here which has a sense of humour about itself. It does also attract some of the stick-on-moustache crowd who think it's all a tremendous jape, playing at being Upper Class Twit of the Year, but unfortunately you get that element with most things once they get to a certain size.

 

[molly]

The Chap's features are often written tongue in cheek, and aimed at a section of the vintage scene over here which has a sense of humour about itself. It does also attract some of the stick-on-moustache crowd who think it's all a tremendous jape, playing at being Upper Class Twit of the Year, but unfortunately you get that element with most things once they get to a certain size.

Yeah agreed, I like the humour to a degree and the humour does seem to be quite ingrained into that scene (well judging by the Chap Olympiad and tweed rides and the like) not that thats a bad thing at all, some people like to dress up and act a "part". I guess like the tongue-in-cheek articles it sometimes gets a bit much.

 

[BinkieBaumont]

Poppet, you can never have Too Much after all Chaps it is 2012

 

[BinkieBaumont]

oops!!! time traveler caught out, I gave my copy to a Cove at the office who is going East on the Indian Pacific, to Adelaide

http://www.gsr.com.au/site/indian_pacific.jsp