Twentieth century culture and deportment, or, The lady and gentleman at home and abroad : containing rules of etiquette for all occasions ... . occasions, however, give very short notice, and it is well touse the word informal in the invitation, that guests may not put JO * INVITATIONS, FORMAL AND INFORMAL. themselves to inconvenience as regards dress. It must be remem-bered that this term is too often misleading in its nature, and many asensitive guest has been seriously annoyed by finding herself, after atoo literal interpretation of the informal character of the entertain-m
Twentieth century culture and deportment, or, The lady and gentleman at home and abroad : containing rules of etiquette for all occasions ... . occasions, however, give very short notice, and it is well touse the word informal in the invitation, that guests may not put JO * INVITATIONS, FORMAL AND INFORMAL. themselves to inconvenience as regards dress. It must be remem-bered that this term is too often misleading in its nature, and many asensitive guest has been seriously annoyed by finding herself, after atoo literal interpretation of the informal character of the entertain-ment, in a crowd of gay butterflies, a misuse of the word that shouldbe seriously protested against. Invitations to evening parties and private balls are less elaboratethan formerly; the word party or ball is never used unless onthe occasion of some public affair, such as a charity ball, but anyespecial feature of the evening may be mentioned in the invitation. To an evening party where dancing may, or may not, be a featureof the entertainment, the following, either engraved or written on asmall sheet of note paper, is a very good form :. Informal. All invitations are to be considered as formal unless the wordinformal appears on the card. If the card states that the enter-tainment is to be informal, the invited guest is fully justified in con-sidering it so, and dressing accordingly. Neither host, hostess, norother guests can take any exception if the invitation is treated just asit reads. INVITATIONS, FORMAL AND INFORMAL. 91 If dancing is the feature of the evening, the same form may be usedwith the word Dancing added in the lower left hand corner. Of ; Quadrilles at ten. If the ball is at a public place, as at Delmonicos, in New York, thefollowing form is appropriate, always making use, in case of co publican entertainment, of the hosts name in connection with that of thehostess :
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