Having answered readers’ etiquette questions for years in Vogue, Germain noticed that every manual neglected the unmarried man, and wrote one for him from the New York standpoint. He covers how to dress and groom, care for clothes, pay calls and leave cards, behave at table, host in a city flat or a country house, manage servants, and survive the ball and the cotillon.
A detailed and often amusing picture of the Gilded Age gentleman’s social obligations. Download the free EPUB.