FamilyWiggs
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Given everyone's interest in preserving our built heritage, it just struck me you will probably be as concerned as I am about the mortal threat to Britain's other national institution.
I speak of course of The Chap - the well dressed, behatted, moustached, monocle-wearing and pipe-smoking dandy that was once the backbone of our Empire. The Chap upholds such outmoded but indispensable gestures as hat doffing, giving up one's seat to a lady and regularly using a trouser press. Everywhere we look, The Chap is under threat. Un-gentlemanly conduct, attire and attitudes are ranged against this most affable of traditions - Gadzooks, we are on the brink of a moral and sartorial collapse.
A few brave souls are fighting back. I'm sure you'd like to know about this year's "Chap Olympiad" on 11th July in Bedford Sq Gardens, WC1. On this day, as in previous years, hundreds of well-dressed competitors will descend upon this verdant garden in Bloomsbury to pit their wits, their trouser creases, their cocktail mixing abilities - but not their athleticism - against their peers.
The Chap Olympiad seeks to celebrate specifically British qualities, such as the excessive drinking of dry martinis before lunch, the wearing of monocles, the smoking of pipes and the maintenance of an immaculate crease in one’s trousers despite having tripped over a basset hound on the way to the pavilion.
http://thechap.net/content/section_news/?p=47
I have no doubt that Penners is a raffish cove, Biff wears a monocle, and Gareth Hughes (despite his obvious Welsh ancestry) wears nothing but tweed (but never "brown in town" of course). On the chappess side, Schoolmarm clearly harks back to days when things were done "properly", Moo no doubt smokes a pipe, and Joce I am sure is very familar with Bloomsbury and WC1.
Tally-ho - let the games begin.
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I speak of course of The Chap - the well dressed, behatted, moustached, monocle-wearing and pipe-smoking dandy that was once the backbone of our Empire. The Chap upholds such outmoded but indispensable gestures as hat doffing, giving up one's seat to a lady and regularly using a trouser press. Everywhere we look, The Chap is under threat. Un-gentlemanly conduct, attire and attitudes are ranged against this most affable of traditions - Gadzooks, we are on the brink of a moral and sartorial collapse.
A few brave souls are fighting back. I'm sure you'd like to know about this year's "Chap Olympiad" on 11th July in Bedford Sq Gardens, WC1. On this day, as in previous years, hundreds of well-dressed competitors will descend upon this verdant garden in Bloomsbury to pit their wits, their trouser creases, their cocktail mixing abilities - but not their athleticism - against their peers.
The Chap Olympiad seeks to celebrate specifically British qualities, such as the excessive drinking of dry martinis before lunch, the wearing of monocles, the smoking of pipes and the maintenance of an immaculate crease in one’s trousers despite having tripped over a basset hound on the way to the pavilion.
http://thechap.net/content/section_news/?p=47
I have no doubt that Penners is a raffish cove, Biff wears a monocle, and Gareth Hughes (despite his obvious Welsh ancestry) wears nothing but tweed (but never "brown in town" of course). On the chappess side, Schoolmarm clearly harks back to days when things were done "properly", Moo no doubt smokes a pipe, and Joce I am sure is very familar with Bloomsbury and WC1.
Tally-ho - let the games begin.
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