The Chap Issue 107

Sartorial

Get The Look

ROARING TWENTIES Digby Fairfax delves into various retail outlets to assemble a wardrobe suitable for a 1920s chap

FOOTWEAR The ideal twenties style is a button-up boot constructed to resemble boots with spats. These are only made by a few bootmakers and are therefore rather pricy. Those from Adjustable Costume (adjustablecostume. jp) will set you back 96,580 Yen, or around £650. Stacy Adams in the US (stacyadams. com) makes a more basic version, the Madison Spectator Spat Cap Toe Boot for $135. A cheaper way to achieve the look is with a pair of plain black ankle boots and a pair of spats from Darcy Clothing (darcyclothing.com) for £65. The other footwear option is a pair of corespondent shoes, available from Shipton & Heneage for £199.

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The Chap Issue 107

Published on Mar 10, 2021

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Chap Spring 21 delves into the explosion of music, dance, literature, art and cinema that came just after the First World War and the Spanish Flu pandemic, including Josephine Baker, who took Paris by storm in 1925 as an exotic dancer and went on to serve the nation as a Resistance agent during WWII. The dawn of nightclub culture began in London in the Roaring Twenties and Chris Sullivan describes the arrival of flappers on the London scene, taught to dance the Charleston by a visiting Louise Brooks in clubs like Cave of The Golden Calf and the Cafe de Paris. Sartorially, this edition provides everything one needs to know about how to achieve the Roaring Twenties look. We meet Kazuki Kodaka, whose brand Adjustable Costume is strongly influenced by the 1920s. Vintage Egyptologists John and Colleen Darnell outline the ways in which 1920s fashion, architecture and interiors were influenced by ancient Egypt, and our German correspondents report from Boheme Sauvage, a German party night devoted entirely to the Ro