When the collection moved into the American Far West, thankfully the fringed chaps-style pants and the ubiquitous cowboy hats didn't overwhelm some charming girly designs.
The stars of the group are two very macho adolescent bull riders rigged out in leather chaps, Stetson-style straw hats and fancy belts.
They even saddle you up in leathery chaps and Mask of Zorro style hats, so you get a bit of a kinky thrill out of it as well.
But no: Jeeves and the Wedding Bells proclaimed a cover dressed up in a style that some chap in faded corduroys at the Slade would no doubt call "Art Deco".
Yet it is often said that poetry is what's lost in translation, to the point where Coleridge proposed "untranslatableness in words of the same language without injury to the meaning" as "the infallible test of a blameless style" (Biographia Literaria, chap. 22).
Well, this chap in the Bloodhound Gang style monkey suit was his lad-parallel.
Roger Snook; Owner, T Snook Hatters The gentlemen's outfitters in Bridport, Dorset, has been selling hats since 1896 "Being a chap is all to do with the style of dress and the decorum of being a gentleman.
Tom of Finland-style daddies in caps and chaps.
Tom of Finland's musclebound blond bikers, men in uniform and a whole closet full of leatherwear not only illustrated a sexual style, but partly invented and glamorised the look: caps, moustaches, chaps in chaps – the overt, often parodic masculinity.
STYLE I've never worn [buttocks-revealing] chaps.
He was the designer who once used the word "fierce" to describe a pair of chaps, made "hot tranny mess" a catchphrase and wore his hair in a style that looked like a result of electroshock therapy.
