1. Never come to visit without a call.
If you were visited without warning, you can afford to be in a bathrobe and curlers.
One British lady said that with the appearance of uninvited guests, she always puts on shoes, a hat and the umbrella takes. If the person is pleasant to her, she will exclaim: "Oh, as well, I just came!" If unpleasant: "Oh, what pity, I have to leave."
2. The umbrella is never dried in the open state - in no office or a visit.
It must be folded and put on a special stand or hang.
3. The bag can not be put on your knees or on your chair.
Little elegant bag-clutch can be put on the table, a bulk bag hang on the back of the chair or put on the floor, if there is no special chairs (such are often offered in restaurants). The portfolio put on the floor.
4. Cellophane packages are permissible only on returning from the supermarket, as well as paper branded packages from boutiques.
To carry them later with you as a bag - job.
5. A man never carries a female bag.
And he takes the female coat only to convey to the locker room.
6. Home clothing is pants and sweater, comfortable, but having a decent view. The bathrobe and pajamas are designed to reach the bathroom in the morning, and in the evening - from the bathroom to the bedroom.
7. From the moment the child settles in a separate room, passion, entering it. Then he will come in the same way before entering your bedroom.
8. A woman may not remove the hat and gloves in the room, but not a hat and mittens.
9. The total number of jewelry on the international protocol should not exceed 13 items, and jewelry buttons are included.
On top of the gloves do not wear a ring, but the bracelet is permitted.
The darker on the street, the more expensive decorations.
Diamonds used to be considered the evening decoration of married ladies, but recently it became permanently to wear diamonds and day. On a young girl earrings-carnation with a diamond about 0.25 carats are quite appropriate.
10. Rules for payment of the order in a restaurant: If you say the phrase "I invite you", it means you pay.If a woman invites a business partner to a restaurant, she pays.
Another wording is "And let's go to the restaurant" - assumes that everyone pays for himself, and only if the man himself suggests paying for a woman, she can agree.
11. A man is always the first to enter the elevator, but it turns out the first one who is closer to the door.
12. In the car, the most prestigious is the place behind the driver, it takes his woman, a man sits down next to her, and when he comes out of the car, he holds the door and gives a lady hand.
If a man is driving, a woman is also preferable to take place behind his back.
However, wherever a woman is sitting, a man must open the door in front of it and help get out.
In business etiquette, men in recent times are increasingly violating this rate, using the motto of feminists "There are no women and men in business."
13. Talk to all that you sit on a diet - a bad tone.
Especially impossible under this pretext to abandon the dishes proposed by the hospitable hostess. Be sure to praise her culinary talents, while you can not eat anything. Also follow with alcohol. Do not tell everyone why you can not drink. Ask white dry wine and slightly vigate.
14. Topics Tabu for the secular conversation: politics, religion, health, money. Inappropriate question: "God, what dress! How much did you pay? "
How to react? Milly smile: "This is a gift!" Translate the conversation to another topic. If the interlocutor insists, gently tell me: "I would not want to talk about it."
15. To each person who has reached 12 years, it is supposed to contact "you". Disgusting to hear when people say "you" waiters or chauffs. Even to those people with whom you are familiar, in the office it is better to contact "you", on "you" - only alone.
Exception - If you are peers or close friends.
How to react if the interlocutor stubbornly "pokes" to you? First ask: "Sorry, do you contact me?" Incidentally, the neutral joy of shoulders: "Sorry, but we did not go to" you "."
16. Discuss the absent, that is, simply gossip, is unacceptable. It is imbusably talking bad about loved ones, in particular to discuss husbands, as we have accepted. If the husband is bad - why are you not encouraged with him?
And just as in-disabilities with contempt, with a grimace, talking about the native country. "In this country, all the bil ..." - in this case, you also treat this category of people.
17. In cinema, theater, the concert hall to go to their places should only face the face. The first is a man.
18. Nine things should be kept secret: age, wealth, gap in the house, prayer, the composition of the medicine, love relationship, a gift, honor and disgrace.
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