Victorian Etiquette Notes

Traveling Refinements and Comforts

The experienced traveler never makes the mistake of wearing jewelry or loud clothing, choosing instead a becoming and quiet suit, for those wh...

Etiquette Notes

Etiquette Notes | May 1892

True courtesy implies a great many real virtues of self-restraint, gentle consideration and patience, even if it does not imply love...

Etiquette Notes

Etiquette Notes – February 1893

It is never against any rule of etiquette to say or do a pleasant thing.  Etiquette means simply organized usages to prevent unpleasant s...

Etiquette 1893

A Barn Party

A pretty ceiling decoration may be made with brass chains, dried grasses, and well-formed glass lamp-chimneys. For the side walls use chrom...

Broken wax seal

Etiquette Notes – January 1893

The following notes on sealing wax will interest many readers who are, or may like to be, punctilious on that point: Sealing wax is fashion...

Victorian Etiquette Notes

Etiquette in a Metropolis

There are certain formalities in regard to ceremonials that are not considered in villages and country places, but it is well for the count...

Victorian Etiquette Notes

Etiquette Notes – December 1892

It is a very great mistake to think you may receive an invitation to an entertainment or a wedding, and take no notice of it because you are g...

Butler with invitation

The Etiquette of Invitations

December, 1892 The joint committee on ceremonies of the World's Columbian Exposition has very sensibly set a fashion, which if followed will ...

Etiquette Notes

Etiquette Notes – October 1892

It is both proper and polite to tell a lady or even a gentleman quietly if there is anything amiss about their dress.  For example, if a g...

The Chaperone | Old Magazine Article

The Chaperone

The Ladies World – October, 1892 The duty of a chaperone is to prevent the possibility of gossip. The German equivalent for gossip, t...

Etiquette - Old Magazine Article 1895

Sports For Hallow-e’en

October, 1895 The first ceremony practiced by our rural young people on Hallow-e’en is the pulling of a cabbage-stalk.  Each must pu...

Victorian Dining Room

Dining Room and Chamber Fashions

Dining Room and Chamber Fashions in China, August, 1892 The dinner bell has long since suffered a decadence, and it is rarely now that it s...

Victorian Tea Table

Etiquette Notes – June 1892

For a five-o’clock tea-table to stand permanently in the drawing room or library, a pretty tea equipage is required, consisting of a ...

clasped-hands

Clasped Hands And Character

The latest fad of Washington Society, one brought from Europe, is to discover character by the clasping of hands.  The Washington Post thu...