I recognized his name as being a man I had briefly dated in college. I replied that we would be delighted to receive the wine ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My adult daughters learned etiquette from me. It was passed down from my mother. Somewhere along the line, the old etiquette has been forgotten and new manners have been invented by ...

Table manners have always reflected social values, class structures, and practicality of their time. Many rules were created to signal refinement or avoid inconvenience in formal settings that no ...

The first time I had dinner at my husband’s family estate, I thought I was prepared. I’d watched enough period dramas to know which fork to use. I dressed appropriately. I smiled at the right moments.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: When I was growing up, my mother was adamant that I learn proper manners, especially at the dinner table. Bad table manners were my mother’s pet peeve, and they became mine, as well ...

Miss Manners: It’s weird that my friends won’t give me a knife for dinner Miss Manners: Is it rude to offer your cart to a shopper who’s going in? Miss Manners: I’d feel odd at this family’s blowout ...

The letter in The Washington Post this week seemed charmingly quaint, a throwback to an era in which men stood up and doffed their hats anytime a woman wearing long white gloves entered the room.