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Emily Post Etiquette
http://emily-post-etiquette.blogspot.com
Postings from "ETIQUETTE IN SOCIETY, IN BUSINESS, IN POLITICS AND AT HOME", BY EMILY POST, 1922. Some of the advice is quaint; some of it very relevant today. All of it is well-written and fun to read.
- Added on: Jul 25th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: chicago_blogger
- Listed in: Living Well Culture
- Tags: behavior etiquette manners polite emily post
Recent Posts
The Tuxedo
The Tuxedo, which is the essential evening dress of a gentleman, is simply the English dinner coat. It was first introduced in this country at the Tuxedo Club to provide something less formal than the swallow-tail, and the name has clung ever since. ...
Formal Evening Clothes for Gentlemen
Your full dress is the last thing to economize on. It must be perfect in fit, cut and material, and this means a first-rate tailor. It must be made of a dull-faced worsted, either black or night blue, on no account of broadcloth. Aside from satin fac...
The Considerate Guest
Courtesy demands that you, when you are a guest, shall show neither annoyance nor disappointment—no matter what happens. Before you can hope to become even a passable guest, let alone a perfect one, you must learn as it were not to notice if hot so...
Emily Post Etiquette: Stores and Shops
Lack of consideration for those who in any capacity serve you, is always an evidence of ill-breeding, as well as of inexcusable selfishness. Occasionally a so-called "lady" who has nothing whatever to do but drive uptown or down in her comfortable li...
Regard for Others
Consideration for the rights and feelings of others is not merely a rule for behavior in public but the very foundation upon which social life is built.Rule of etiquette the first—which hundreds of others merely paraphrase or explain or elaborateâ€...
Will You Dine And Go To The Play?
There is no more popular or agreeable way of entertaining people than to ask them to "dine and go to the play." The majority do not even prefer to have "opera" substituted for "play," because those who care for serious music are a minority compared w...
