At 09:14 20/02/2006, you wrote:
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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
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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.
You are right that Bjarne didn't specify British - that was me,
trying to make sure that I only spoke of that which I knew. I also
said that it was 19th century and on, while Bjarne asked about 18th
century. I don't know about that, or about American etiquette, and
was too lazy to quote from my 19c. etiquette books.
I should have said "ladies did not take their gloves off when
introduced to someone." (Actually of course when someone was
introduced to them in many situations! Oh, how complicated!) I found
the site fascinating but slightly different to what I know, hence my
comment about things being different.
Suzi
Suzi
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