"Was Magnum Chic truly the wave of the future? Would women find men wearing Millennium Moustaches irresistible? Are the tan safari suit and the nickname Higgy Baby due for a return to colloquial popularity?

All of these questions had to be answered before I could truly make any sincere claim to fashion clairvoyance."

Join a diverse search for meanin gin South African life as Hagen Engler grows a dodgy moustache, visits Springbok, imagines his lovers are cement mixers and eats chicken.

Magnum Chic is an entertaining collection of columns and articles chronicling the surreal months straddling the millennium. Entire cities are offended, mountains are climbed, sex is had and what emerges is an album of hilarious prose snapshops - digestible chunks of South Africana.

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