For those who love love love etiquette
The practice of giving symbolic anniversary gifts is a very old one. There are references to symbolic gifts going back to the Middle Ages in France and Italy. It’s likely that these came out of religious or superstitious traditions. I think we all in western society realize this instinctively since we’re raised with the tradition…
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As I mentioned earlier, the Victorians loved a system of classification for everything, even if it wasn’t particularly rooted in science. So, when the Victorians developed an obsession with fortune telling and alternate spiritual realms, (I’ll cover this more in a future post) the highly detailed and classification oriented practice of Astrology became a natural…
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“It is always best to give something of your own production or discovery. If the recipient has any love for you, the value of the gift will be enhanced many fold by being the offspring of your effort and skill.” American Etiquette and Rules of Politeness by A.E. Davis, 1882 So, what was a Gent to…
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