Etiquette

Putting the box of pretty note paper on the blog made me think of etiquette. David used to buy me lovely second hand etiquette books when we lived in NYC. I thought he did because he was just very sweet, but maybe he was hinting at something... Anyway, no books recently! Listen to this advice on "the ethics of dress" from "Manners for Women" by Mrs Humphry, aka "Madge" of "Truth"....

"The object of a fashionable woman in dressing, is to make herself distinctive without becoming conspicuous - to excel by her union of graceful outline, and fidelity to the fashion of the moment (no easy task), and, while offering no striking contrast to those around her, so to individualise herself that she is one of the few who remain in the memory, when the crowd of well-dressed women is recalled only as an indistinguishable mass.


And no one, not even the most expert, is invariably successful; but then the triumphs are all the more brilliantly effective by reason of an occasional failure".


How true is last sentence?????? Some more of my favorite fashion philosophers below.