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The Complete Bachelor

Manners for Men

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  1. Preface

    2:08

  2. The bachelor in public

    13:16

  3. How a bachelor should dress

    9:42

  4. The bachelor's toilet

    12:47

  5. The care of a bachelor's clothes

    33:04

  6. Introductions, invitations, and calls

    10:30

  7. Cards

    5:40

  8. The diner-out

    10:28

  9. A code of table manners

    22:37

  10. The city bachelor as host

    14:12

  11. The country house

    11:44

  12. A bachelor's servants

    10:30

  13. The dance

    13:28

  14. The cotillon

    9:46

  15. A bachelor's letters

    9:09

  16. The bachelor's club

    19:26

  17. The sporting bachelor

    27:05

  18. A bachelor's travels at home and abroad

    13:09

  19. The engaged bachelor

    3:20

  20. The bachelor's wedding

    27:29

  21. Funerals

    10:21

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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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