Well-dressed chaps and chapettes protest Savile Row invasion by Abercrombie and Fitch

Readers of England's The Chap magazine staged an incredibly well-dressed protest outside Number 3 Savile Row, the former Apple Records headquarters, which is to become an Abercrombie and Fitch. Chaps of all description dressed in very nice suits and stood around bearing signs and banners with slogans like "give three piece a chance." The Chief Inspector of Savile Row Constabulary remarked "In all honesty, this is the best dressed demonstration I have ever seen."

The Siege of Savile Row

(Image: downsized, cropped thumbnail from The Chap Protest - Savile Row - Abercrombie & Fitch, by Stephanie Wolff)

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snagglepuss

Bloody peasants.
http://www.youtube.com/user/ziccup akbar56

Good show Mr. B. Top drawer.
Teller

There will always be an A&F in naff off.
jarmstrong

Fitch is lucky the chaps did not don their fighting trousers. Nonetheless, the three-pieceniks put on a bloody good show. Good sport, what?
- http://halfbakedmaker.org Robert Baruch
  
  Nor their time-travelling trousers.
Wreckrob8

Fings ain’t wot they used to be. Some Savile Row firms outsource some of their work these days. But keep it quiet. Hush, hush, don’t ya know?
tw1515tw

As a commenter on The Chap site said, a fine example of Savile Disobedience. A&F should not be on the Row.
http://twitter.com/ivanjohnson Howard A. Rodman

And of course the best placard would read, OFF THE PEG!
- Wreckrob8
  
  Not ‘F OFF THE PEG!’?
crummett

I bet none of _them_ got pepper sprayed.
s2redux

Kinda disappointed…was expecting Antinous to show up in this thread musing on a “Row featuring suits wearing chaps.”
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  I was wondering if the publishers of The Chap also publish a magazine called The Chav.
http://halfbakedmaker.org Robert Baruch

It certainly suits the protestors to tie up those who have a vested interest.
penguinchris

If A&F were clever they could open a high-end safari/fishing/outdoorsman outfitter’s shop on Saville Row, as a reincarnation of their original stores. That’d be the right place to look for customers for that kind of thing.