Dining Etiquette and Gloved Ones

                            

“To eat with gloves on is female snobbery.” — There are many things one can do whilst wearing a lovely pair of gloves. But, ladies, it is incorrect to wear rings over gloves or eat whilst wearing them!

Another Etiquette Query

“One in Doubt” asks whether etiquette requires a lady to keep her gloves on while partaking of refreshments at an evening party.


Now, Miss Bwoun did try, in a very silly way, some years ago, to foster that absurd fashion of eating with her gloves on. If she had not been laughed out of it, she would have worn her Marquise ring outside of her glove. To eat with gloves on is female snobbery. 

Young women who go out to parties may be lavish of gloves, and may be indifferent to smearing them with lobster salad, or to have the first finger and thumb darkened where the spoon touches them. But nothing is prettier than the freshness of a woman's hand, and the best fitting glove is, after all, but an awkward thing. Gloved hands that feed, to keep up the whole dignity of the thing, should find mouths which were hidden behind veils. — The New York Times, July 1880

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