Amy Vanderbilt's etiquette

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Main Author: Vanderbilt, Amy
Other Authors: McCarroll, Fred (Illustrator), Suzuki, Mary (Illustrator), Warhol, Andy, 1928-1987 (Illustrator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, c1972.
Edition:[New rev. ed.].
Subjects:
Etiquette.
Festschriften.
Table of Contents:
  • Christenings
  • Debuts
  • Courtship and engagements
  • Wedding invitations and announcements
  • Wedding gifts
  • The trousseau
  • Preparations for the wedding
  • The wedding attendants and their duties
  • Pre-wedding parties
  • Dress for the wedding
  • The rehearsal
  • The wedding ceremony
  • The wedding reception
  • Second and subsequent marriages
  • The honeymoon and post-wedding calls
  • Wedding anniversaries
  • Funerals
  • Men's clothes
  • The well-groomed man
  • A man's manners in the business world
  • The masculine graces
  • The well-dressed woman
  • The fastidious and well-mannered woman
  • What's what in various sports
  • The social pleasantries
  • The smoking problem
  • Clubs
  • Manners at table
  • Our community relations and interfaith courtesy and understanding
  • The new citizen and his particular problems
  • Informal entertaining
  • Formal entertaining
  • The guest at formal meals
  • Special problems of service
  • The ritual of drinking
  • Entertaining indoors
  • Entertaining out of doors
  • Hosts and guests
  • Family meals
  • Furnishings in the established household
  • Employer-servant relations
  • Dress and duties of household help
  • Gracious living without servants
  • Stationery and letters
  • Invitations, acceptances, and regrets
  • Correct forms of address
  • Heraldic devices
  • Writing and conversation can be more colorful
  • Manners in marriage
  • Children and the formation of character
  • The adult-child relationship
  • Adopting a child
  • Traveling with children
  • The teen-ager and young adult
  • The college years
  • Divorce and separation
  • Dining in restaurants
  • Cards and calls
  • Hospitals and doctors
  • Speaking before an audience
  • Simple parliamentary procedure
  • Your appearance at public functions
  • You and celebrities
  • Attending Annapolis Hops
  • Visiting West Point
  • How to tell military rank
  • Visiting a naval vessel
  • The new resident in Washington
  • The flag and our National Anthem.
  • Traveling by ship, plane, train, and bus
  • Tips to the stay-at-home
  • How customs differ abroad
  • An audience with the Pope
  • Traveling by car.

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