The Chap Broadens its Horizons: Please Support on Kickstarter

I have the great privilege of contributing a regular column to The Chap, a quarterly magazine that helps men become gentlemen and women become ladies. The magazine's editor, Gustav Temple, wants to broaden the publication's horizons by offering a range of clothes and accessories, including a Harris tweed jacket and forties-style dresses for the ladies. He has launched a Kickstarter campaign to achieve this aim and I urge you to support it, if only for the goodies on offer. 

In this video Gustav explains what he wants to achieve, I must apologise the he appears to have forgotten to remove his titfer indoors, but I expect that in his excitement this slipped his mind. See also The Chap website for more on the magazine and Kickstarter for details of the campaign and to sign up.

Kit and Kaboodle: Buy British Goods from The Chap's Online Emporium

That excellent magazine, The Chap, has opened an online shop, Kit & Kaboodle, with the laudable aim of selling high quality British products essential to people of discernment. Sharing my philosophy that it's best to buy good quality and to support British manufacture than to make false economies by buying cheaply, Kit & Kaboodle have sourced products from many of the companies familiar to regular readers of this blog. Fine leather wares, watches, pens, woollen goods and knives are some of the high quality items available (see images below). Visit Kit & Kaboodle to browse and buy. Prices from around a tenner to about £400.

Two chaps and a chapess discussing their purchases from Kit & Kaboodle

I can also recommend a subscription to The Chap magazine for those who love tweed, pipes and never wear denim.

The Leather Satchel Co

Michael May knife

Tim Hardy belt

Crowder ATP watch

Just Wool Textiles scarf

Yard - O - Led fountain pen