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Preface
2:08 -
The bachelor in public
13:16 -
How a bachelor should dress
9:42 -
The bachelor's toilet
12:47 -
The care of a bachelor's clothes
33:04 -
Introductions, invitations, and calls
10:30 -
Cards
5:40 -
The diner-out
10:28 -
A code of table manners
22:37 -
The city bachelor as host
14:12 -
The country house
11:44 -
A bachelor's servants
10:30 -
The dance
13:28 -
The cotillon
9:46 -
A bachelor's letters
9:09 -
The bachelor's club
19:26 -
The sporting bachelor
27:05 -
A bachelor's travels at home and abroad
13:09 -
The engaged bachelor
3:20 -
The bachelor's wedding
27:29 -
Funerals
10:21
The Complete Bachelor (1896) is a public domain work.
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A raised hat, a held door and a place at the dinner table all carry social meaning in Walter Germain's guide to manners for men. Written from a New York standpoint, this 1896 handbook responds to practical questions the author received while handling readers' inquiries for Vogue. Its chapters cover dress, introductions, calling cards, hosting, clubs, travel and weddings, with detailed instructions for conduct in streets, hotels and theaters.
The ballroom receives equally careful attention. Germain explains when to wear gloves, how to guide a partner and why New York dances differ from gatherings that use dance cards. He treats courtesy as a matter of common sense, while also recording the strict distinctions of fashionable society. Read today, the manual provides concrete details of late nineteenth-century social life, including the assumptions about status and the different roles assigned to men and women.
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- Author
- Walter Germain
- Reading time
- About 3 hours
- Pages
- 102
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Educational
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