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		<title>The Siege of Savile Row</title>
		<link>http://thechap.net/content/section_news/?p=1050</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the morning of St George&#8217;s Day, April 23rd, swathes of immaculately dressed chaps and chapettes gathered outside No. 3 Savile Row to demonstrate peacefully &#8211; but firmly &#8211; against Abercrombie &#038; Fitch’s proposed plans to open a children’s store there. The protest began in earnest at 10:15am, when chumrades in arms marched around the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chaps to Stage Radical Protest on Savile Row</title>
		<link>http://thechap.net/content/section_news/?p=1036</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Download the placard here In a return to the heady days of Civilise the City and the notorious Tate Modern art protest, the Chap is to take to the streets once again and stand up for what we believe in. On Monday, 23rd April 2012 (St George&#8217;s Day) several hundred immaculately dressed Chaps and Chapettes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chap Olympiad 2012 Tickets Go on Sale</title>
		<link>http://thechap.net/content/section_news/?p=1019</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tickets for this year&#8217;s annual sporting occasion for the overdressed have gone on sale. This is a significant year for the Chap Olympiad: after years of covertly observing our sporting spectacle, The British Olympic Committee has picked 2012 as the year to stage its copycat event, called simply “The Olympic Games”. Our response is simply [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Chap Launches Petition to Save Savile Row</title>
		<link>http://thechap.net/content/section_news/?p=1005</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:40:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to the appalling news about Abercrombie &#038; Fitch proposing to open a children&#8217;s store on Savile Row, The Chap has decided to take a stand. We have created a Petition, targeted at Wesminster Council, which we will present to them when enough signatures have been collected. We urge you to sign – it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Date Set for Eighth Chap Olympiad</title>
		<link>http://thechap.net/content/section_news/?p=998</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The date for this year&#8217;s Chap Olympiad, which will take place over two days instead of one, has now been confirmed as Saturday 7th-Sunday 8th July 2012. Tickets will go on sale on Monday 26th March. This year’s Olympiad is competing with a rival organisation, calling itself simply “The Olympics”, which is attempting to steal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Savile Row Threatened by Invasion of the Hoodie Snatchers</title>
		<link>http://thechap.net/content/section_news/?p=991</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abercrombie &#038; Fitch has lodged plans with Westminster Council to open a children’s store on Savile Row. With its flagship store currently situated at Burlington Gardens, the American retailer &#8211; which manufactures casual wear (including hoodies) for youths – is determined to plant its off-shoot brand Abercrombie Kids around the corner “in plain, spoilt-brat view” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Olympic Sporstmen Warned Against Shaking Hands</title>
		<link>http://thechap.net/content/section_news/?p=988</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 21:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[British athletes have been warned against shaking hands with rivals and dignitaries at the London Olympics. The British Olympic Association (BOA) is concerned about illness damaging the host nation’s chances of success. “The greatest threat to performance is illness and possibly injury,” said BOA chief medical officer Ian McCurdie. “We are talking about minimising risk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today it’s Pyjamas, Tomorrow it’s Underwear</title>
		<link>http://thechap.net/content/section_news/?p=984</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year in Britain, the supermarket chain Tesco banned shoppers from wearing pyjamas, principally aimed at ladies of a certain social class not bothering to get dressed before doing their shopping. But now, in the United States, gentlemen have been issued with a similar warning. Michael Williams, a commissioner for the Caddo Parish in northwest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ripping Yarns Hopathon to be Restaged</title>
		<link>http://thechap.net/content/section_news/?p=970</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The writers and stars of the cult television programme Ripping Yarns are to stage a gigantic, public hopathon in London on Saturday 3rd March. To mark the DVD release of &#8220;Ripping Yarns The Complete Series&#8221;, and as an homage to the episode entitled Tomkinson&#8217;s School Days, members of the public are sought to try and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Human Race Reaches Sartorial Nadir</title>
		<link>http://thechap.net/content/section_news/?p=965</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In recent years, the abominable sartorial descent of the human race has reached something of a nadir, in the form of an item of clothing commonly known as the “sweat pant”. Far from being words associated with proper dress, for Chaps, these are simply two verbs which bring painful memories of physical exertion during schooldays. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Burlesque Star Seeks Single Chap</title>
		<link>http://thechap.net/content/section_news/?p=955</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here at the Chap, we like to keep our monocled eyes peeled and our remarkably shapely ears open for unusual opportunities that might just change a chap&#8217;s life. And this is one of those rare and potentially frisky opportunities. This Wednesday, 22nd February, marks the launch of a vintage dating service called The Old Fashioned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February Edition of The Chap</title>
		<link>http://thechap.net/content/section_news/?p=942</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we enter our 13th year in publication, puffing merrily on provisional samples of The Chap’s new tobacco blend, Blue Funk, and loafing about the freshly installed Gin Cooler, the tittle-tattle turns to our recent staff changes. Neil Ridley, former drinks editor, is now Deputy Editor; Michael Attree, formerly a mere moustache, is now Editor-at-Large; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>60-Year-Old Yeti Mystery Finally Solved</title>
		<link>http://thechap.net/content/section_news/?p=938</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s the stuff of post-war comic books: a remote Himalayan monastery supposedly containing the hand of a yeti was discovered by explorer Peter Byrne in 1957. Byrne sent a runner over the border to India with a message for Tom Slick, the wealthy American Oilman with an interest in Cryptozoology, who returned instructions to retrieve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Royal Opera House Puts Polyester on Bill</title>
		<link>http://thechap.net/content/section_news/?p=933</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chap has received an urgent missive from a staff member at The Royal Opera House. The victim, who wishes to remain anonymous, writes: “On February 1st my esteemed employer, The Royal Opera House, will adopt a new uniform for its front-of-house staff. This entirely vile uniform is composed of a grey M&#038;S suit (lightweight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Museum Director Sparks Neckwear Crisis</title>
		<link>http://thechap.net/content/section_news/?p=929</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first foreign director of the V&#038;A museum, Professor Martin Roth, has publicly denounced the decline of neckties worn by British men, in an interview with Country Life magazine. The 57-year-old German professor and former general director of the Dresden State Art Collection bemoaned slipping sartorial standards in Britain, declaring “nobody seems to wear a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Croatia Promotes Anti-Chap Legislation</title>
		<link>http://thechap.net/content/section_news/?p=923</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a sad day indeed when a chap cannot recline post-stroll on a weather-wood bench and strike up his loyal briar. So when Mr. Gaute Hauglid-Formo from Norway alerted Chap HQ to this provocative sign banning pipe smoking in a scenic park on the island of Sipan – just off the Dubrovnik coast of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last Few Tickets Left for the Chap’s Annual Shindig</title>
		<link>http://thechap.net/content/section_news/?p=910</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tickets are disappearing fast for the Third Grand Anarcho-Dandyist Ball on Saturday 3rd December. This Chap annual spectacular is hosted by Viv the Spiv and features star turns from Professor Elemental, Fat 45 and others, as well as our usual array of peculiar sideshows, including Jeeves Dating, Lipstick &#038; Curls, Afternoon Tea and a retro [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calls for “Basher” Assad to Step Down</title>
		<link>http://thechap.net/content/section_news/?p=906</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 11:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Syrian President Bashar “Basher” al-Assad is facing growing calls from the international community to step down. According a mysterious local source known only as ‘Babu’, there is a general consensus of opinion that as-Assad should not be allowed to continue competing in the Movember moustache-growing competition, due to the puniness of his facial fuzz. Delegates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moustaches Become Good for your Health</title>
		<link>http://thechap.net/content/section_news/?p=898</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 13:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every November, normal men all over the world get the chance to take the first step towards Chapdom by cultivating a moustache for charity. The aim of the campaign is to raise funds and awareness for men’s health, specifically prostate cancer and other cancers that affect men. From 1st November, men can register at Movember.com [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Third Grand Anarcho-Dandyist Ball in Pictures</title>
		<link>http://thechap.net/content/section_news/?p=879</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 19:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chap&#8217;s annual shindig on 3rd December was a spectacular soiree attended by the most eccentric of trouser, rakishly angled of headwear, co-respondent of shoe and brilliantined of barnet in the whole land. With a broad theme of spivs/cads/bounders/femmes fatales/dembob darlings, the Chap&#8217;s sartorially astute and imaginative followers managed to fill the vast 1937 Ballroom [...]]]></description>
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