-----Original Message----- This may be etiquette in the U.S. but it is not in court circles in Britain. Manners may well differ in different countries. My comment was an answer to Bjarne according to British habits. Under normal circumstances, most ladies would be wearing gloves, so the actual kiss on the skin of the hand would not happen anyway. Gloves were not taken off when one was introduced to someone.
Suzi __________ As I said "Perhaps" and "some" Please note from the site: "Period books of (American) etiquette state that not removing one's gloves by the gentleman is perfectly proper. If your character is European, however, the gentleman would remove the glove from the hand that takes the lady's." This is more 1800s etiquette and from what little I understand of the period, much of both US coasts were fascinated by European etiquette during the 1800s and tried to emulate it. Perhaps I misread Bjarne's email as I do not remember seeing Britain specified. I apologies for the bandwidth in posting the url. I will definitely make sure that I do not make that mistake again. De _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
