Peggy Post

I suppose it's a bit late for me to finally learn the dos and don'ts of polite society, but it was fun learning what I've been doing right, less fun learning what I've been doing wrong. :-) Some of the things included here were a nice surprise. There are gift suggestions, for example, for various occasions. It certainly took me a long time to get through this. I haven't much time for actual print books, and the irrelevant sections were a bit tedious (attending a grand ball, for example), but you never know when something might become relevant that you don't think is.… (altro)

This monster is 900 pages of everything you need to know from the late 19th C. to 2004, the year it was published. In fairness, deletions of many former customs no longer part of our modern world have been removed. But unfortunately, how Ms. Post plans to keep up with our ever-increasing rate of change will make the next volume potentially part obsolete before it publishes, for our pace of change has become exponential. No matter, I sometimes am surprised how often I check the book concerning handling an old traditional function to see if any technology has altered its usual method.… (altro)