Posted on Feb 4, 2023
How to make a party pleasant: Party etiquette for the gentleman from an 1800s handbook on manners...
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- Etiquette Guide: These are of two kinds, large and small. For the first, you will receive a formal card, containing the compliments of your hostess for a certain evening, and this calls for full dress, a dress coat, and white or very light gloves.
- Modern Translation: Someone will blast something out on social media. Make sure you show up wearing clothes and don't dis whoever is throwing the party
- Etiquette Guide: If you are to act as escort to a lady, you must call at the hour she chooses to name, and the most elegant way is to take a carriage for her.
- Modern Translation: Pull up with your music blasting and honk the horn. Flip off anyone that looks at you for more than three seconds (unless it's your girl .. then waggle your tongue at her).
- Etiquette Guide: When you reach the house of your hostess for the evening, escort your companion to the dressing-room, and leave her at the door. After you have deposited your own hat and great-coat in the gentlemen’s dressing room, return to the ladies’ door and wait for your companion.
- Modern Translation: That ho is on her own. Tell her not to cramp your style and go hang with your bros.
- Etiquette Guide: There is one piece of rudeness very common at parties, against which I would caution you. Young people very often form a group, and indulge in the most boisterous merriment and loud laughter, for jests known only to themselves. Do not join such a group. A well-bred man, while he is cheerful and gay, will avoid any appearance of romping in society.
- Modern Translation: Get with your bros and dominate the keg! Be the center of attention and ridicule anyone not in your group.
- Modern Translation: Someone will blast something out on social media. Make sure you show up wearing clothes and don't dis whoever is throwing the party
- Etiquette Guide: If you are to act as escort to a lady, you must call at the hour she chooses to name, and the most elegant way is to take a carriage for her.
- Modern Translation: Pull up with your music blasting and honk the horn. Flip off anyone that looks at you for more than three seconds (unless it's your girl .. then waggle your tongue at her).
- Etiquette Guide: When you reach the house of your hostess for the evening, escort your companion to the dressing-room, and leave her at the door. After you have deposited your own hat and great-coat in the gentlemen’s dressing room, return to the ladies’ door and wait for your companion.
- Modern Translation: That ho is on her own. Tell her not to cramp your style and go hang with your bros.
- Etiquette Guide: There is one piece of rudeness very common at parties, against which I would caution you. Young people very often form a group, and indulge in the most boisterous merriment and loud laughter, for jests known only to themselves. Do not join such a group. A well-bred man, while he is cheerful and gay, will avoid any appearance of romping in society.
- Modern Translation: Get with your bros and dominate the keg! Be the center of attention and ridicule anyone not in your group.
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SPC Bill Bailey
I wonder how many guys here remember which side your lady should be on when walking down the street ?
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SGT Tiffanie G.
SPC Bill Bailey - Depends on the time frame. At one time it was lady on the inside, to keep away from spashes from passing vehicles. And at another time it was lady on the outside, to keep away from nightsoil being thrown out of upstairs windows. Lady on the right was during sword times, due to cross drawing of the sword, which would keep the lady's skirts from fouling the draw/blade, and would put her safely behind him as he stepped forward sword in hand and began to fight (right handed, as most people were). The old rhyme was, "Lady on the Left was no Lady at all".
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