Chap Events

THE CHAP OLYMPIAD. Saturday 7th-Sunday 8th July 2012, London. This is the nation's most challenging sporting occasion - if your idea of a challenge is pitting your finest trouser creases against another man's, or seeing who can hurl a plate of cucumber sandwiches with the most panache. The Chap Olympiad will this year take place over two days instead of one, to mark the fact that some less well-dressed sportsmen are scheduled to be cavorting around far less elegantly in Mile End or somewhere equally ghastly. The Chap Olympiad operates a ticketing system that does not involve any form of lottery, and is open to all comers, male or female, moustachioed or clean shaven, top drawer or bargain basement, just so long as you are keen to cut the mustard on the Field of Pleasant Dreams. Thechapolympiad.com

THE GRAND ANARCHO-DANDYIST BALL. December, London. The Chap's annual shindig, at which all the writers, foreign correspondents, moustachioed bounders and sartorial experts come together under stunning art-deco chandeliers for a glamorous knees-up to which all the readers are invited. This year's hootenanny featured Fat 45, a splendid Jump Jive Swing orchestra, plus turns from Professor Elemental and others. It was hosted by Viv the Spiv and was attended by some 900 chaps and chapettes dressed as spivs/cads/bounders/femme fatales/demob darlings. Butlers and secretaries ensured that typed missives flowed between all the guests via our "Jeeves Dating" service, and hooch cocktail was served through a secret hatch which one summoned by ringing a bell.
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