L.A. Plume answers your questions about entertaining, etiquette, and manners in the modern world.
Why Manners?
Wednesday, 05 August 2009 05:42
The above question was posed to Mr. X, who responded: “Oh, you mean the lady goes first through a door, because they do; gentleman stand when a lady is standing at the table.
The other day my boyfriend, who is not exactly a natty dresser, went into a small local shop. The proprietor asked him if he had jumped out of bed, dressed quickly and hurried out the window to avoid someone's husband.
Dear Ms. Plume, Someone asked me the other day whether or not I "know etiquette," which sounds vaguely ungrammatical, but it did set me thinking about the essence of etiquette.