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You understood it was the fashion week in Paris ! So what’s the new tendency for fishermen ? Chap ? What is that ? Simon Lamothe (thanks to him) discovered a funny book about this “very british” tendency.

- Atsushi, notre plus belle exemple de chap, our best chap mate -

In England the Monty Python’s spirit is still alive, excellent for our zygomatics! Two delirious British imagine some rules for a soft “revolution” without no gun or violence: a “Tweed revolution”. Le Mouching couldn’t miss that!

 Gustav Temple and Vic Darkwood wrote a manifesto explaining that bad taste and street wear are not any more suitable in our society. The real good manners are courtesy, elegance.  As a kind of John Cleese wearing tweed suits, smoking pipe at McDonald’s wondering why there is a restaurant inside public toilets : clearly offbeat, completely hilarious. We can wonder if fisherman is not definitely a Chap? Well if you already checked the dressing or adjusted your hat before walk on your favourite riversides, the spirit is there…

Theirs followers finally created Olympic Games with handshaking contest, doffing hat endurance test… Those guys laugh well ! So to know how get dressed to read, how serve properly Gin Tonic, greet passers-by…run to your library or web. The webzine reports also the annual Chap Olympiads (top notch video) purely crazy! A new event is supposed to be created: “the bow tie streamer laying on Lady hat’s”. Read an interview of one of the authors.

I probably caught the virus: yesterday I gently picked up a flower and hang it at my fishing vest. I was taking off my cap to greet other fishermen: “beautiful day isn’t it?”… A sweet well-being feeling grew in me in a fantastic background; I was feeling good…

Text : Simon Lamothe – pics : Atsushi Hasegawa