At 14:26 20/02/2006, you wrote:
One of my more droll findings in etiquitte books (American, late 19th C) is a note that ladies never take off their gloves even at a dinnertable...unless the hostess does!! For the nouveu upper middle class, this advice would speak woe to the idea that one might well ruin many pairs of long white kid gloves attending affairs of someone who really was Not In the Know".
Ah, but if you had gloves which buttoned at the wrist, you could undo the buttons, and tuck the "hand" part into the rest of the glove. Thus, while technically not removing your gloves, you actually didn't get them in the soup - or whatever.
Suzi
> -----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 > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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