![]() ![]() ![]() Cake in the office is not enough of a treat (and is often the object of. Or best of all, suggest to your firm that you abandon the practice altogether. Or build a rotating schedule among the attorneys. She has had to oppose this, while commending the intention, because one is not supposed to be thinking of one’s guests in terms of presents, not even to discourage them.īut because no one seems to get it – some thinking as you suggest, others presuming that it means that only cash donations are acceptable – it is useless, anyway. GENTLE READER > Are there any junior staff members or receptionists at your firm If so, Miss Manners suggests you solicit their assistance. GENTLE READER: “No gifts” – what could be more plainly stated? Miss Manners wants to believe that people put this on invitations to relieve their guests of a presumed obligation. Do people put “no gifts” on an invitation as a sign of modesty? What should I do? I have received several invitations like this lately. One said that if a gift is given, it should be sent, not brought to the party. Some of my friends insist that a gift should be given anyway, and some say that a group gift is all right. to con- sult in the matter would be Miss Fermoy's maid. She is delicately skipping over the fact that the bracelet was given before your engagement because a lady should not be accepting serious jewelry from a mere boyfriend.ĭEAR MISS MANNERS: What is proper when an invitation arrives with the words “no gifts, please” on it? Imagine her feel- ings, if you can, gentle reader, when she heard that she was to be sold as. Gentle Reader: Are there any junior staff members or receptionists at your firm If so, Miss Manners suggests you solicit their assistance. Miss Manners can only offer you the comfort that any serious jewelry given with the expectation of marriage should be returned, so you would have been returning that, anyway. GENTLE READER: Nice try, but you considered it an engagement ring when you were engaged, and it has not suddenly turned back into a bracelet. My question is, should I return the ring or is it considered a gift because it was originally a bracelet? Unfortunately I am not going through with the wedding. A year later, we exchanged the bracelet at the jewelry store for an engagement ring. Ladies would look just as yucky in food-stained gloves as gentlemen.ĭEAR MISS MANNERS: My boyfriend bought me a bracelet as a gift. The rule against eating or drinking while wearing gloves applies to everyone, Miss Manners assures you. At the end of the year, we will have a traditional military banquet, and I plan to wear gloves, as I have at other past formals.ĭuring the dinner portion, will I be expected to remove my gloves? I have been told that the men are to remove the gloves, but no one can tell me if the same is expected of the ladies. Miss Manners believes it would be more helpful to inform such gentlemen what delicious intimacy they could foster by looking helpless and asking one of those beautifully turned-out ladies for assistance.ĭEAR MISS MANNERS: I am a member of a quasi-military organization. ![]()
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