Etiquette

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Etiquette
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Posturing

• to assume a particular posture.
• to assume affected or unnatural postures, as by
  bending or contorting the body.
• to act in an affected or artificial manner, as to
  create a certain impression.

(Dictionary. com)
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Miss Manners Says

• The body is as much a part of the human creature
  as the mind. It is the medium through which our
  souls see, feel, and act. By its outward
  expression of our internal thoughts we convey to
  others a sense of our opinions, hopes, fears, and
  affections we communicate love, we excite it.

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Womens EtiquetteModesty is Grace.

• Greetings- Only a touch of hands with slight
  pressure to show affection or to greet someone.
• Perfecting their voice to not be too high or too
  low. No speech impediments.

• Always striving toward beauty. But it must look
  like natural beauty, not work. (Like today of
  not looking like youre wearing make-up)
• Ways to Preserve Beauty Temperance, Exercise and
  Cleanliness

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Women Appearances

• Much emphasis placed on fashion. The proper wear
  was based off of many factors.
• Age
• Social Status
• Time of Day
• Her Figure

• Always about correcting any flaws. Those without
  beauty were to become passive/Subservient/Invisibl
  e.
• Carriage
• Graceful
• Light
• Never Stiff
• Swan-like Necks
• Gliding

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No Laughing(for men)

• Frequent and loud laughter is characteristic of
  the uneducated.
• A man could smile but by no means laugh.
• Dont smile to distortion and No fidgeting.
• No horseplay. A sign of poor breeding.

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Posturing

• Legs apart
• Tilt with head
• Sitting- be in the center of the chair. No
  lounging or sitting on the edge.

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Posturing

• Arms dont squish the dress to keep from breaking
  its lines
• Presenting the hat.
• Every ornamentation was used to accentuate.

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Posturing

• Affected
• Posing to show his best side
• Thomasina and mama was laughing, with her head
  in her best position.
• Angles

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Posturing

• Ballet 3rd position
• Straight legs to show clean lines.
• Angles
• Walking- No hips swaying or rocking
• Bowing- just a light bending from the waist
• Gesturing?

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Gesturing

• It was considered bad form to gesticulate when
  talking.
• Any movement of the arms and hands would have
  been very presentational and more like poses.
• Everything was very graceful and a way to frame
  your body. Nothing fast and spastic like today.

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Morning Dresses
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Posturing

• Still positioning legs
• Strong vertical posture
• When relaxing, one bent knee.
• Pose seems Septimus (looks like Chater)

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Posturing

• Head tilt
• Arms follow lines
• Even younger females and males wore detailed
  ornamentation

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Carriage Dresses

• Also when you are walking with a man take the arm
  not the hand.

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Evening Dresses
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Posturing

• Hold skirt from side again to not break any
  lines
• Arm follows skirt
• Open 3rd with legs
• Walking- keep head up (probably too high here.
  But makes a perfect line) and chest open.
  Graceful NOT stiff.

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Posturing

• Arms also not breaking the line of the dress.
• Bow- just a slight bending of the knees.

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Posturing

• Thomasina
• Dresses allowed for free and natural movement.
• Young were allowed to have a more buoyant step in
  their movements.

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Posturing

• Long straight legs
• 3rd position
• Broad open chest
• Angles
• Capt. Brice
• Could be Chater because of collapse at waist.

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Opera/Full Dresses
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Waltzing

• Thomasina Yes, we must hurry if we are going to
  dance.
• Septimus Oh, we have time, I think.
• Valentine till theres no time left. Thats
  what time means.
• Septimus When we have found all the mysteries
  and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an
  empty shore.
• Thomasina Then we will dance. Is this a waltz?
• Septimus It will serve. (pg 94)

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The correct method of waltzing
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Waltz - Scandal

• Too close
• Spinning
• Dizziness
• Fast
• Continually whirling in close embrace and
  leaping into the air together, in the volte the
  dancing couple executed a pantomime of love

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Dancing

• To acquire a graceful air you must practice
  dancing. (even for men)
• Pay attention to the motion of the arms.
• No one can even sit, stand or walk well unless
  he dances well. (pg30)

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Dangers

• Not only morality dangers but physically.
  Unseemly turns, dizziness, and jumping.
• one might think that the dancers could not come
  down to earth again without both breaking their
  necks and legs.
• Morality Dancing cheek-to-cheek (obviously very
  close) brought about immorality of dancing
  Culling, kissing, and filthy groping.
• Miss manners says Women should never be put in
  this proximity of a man, unless with the man that
  she shares the more intimate connection she can
  have in life.

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Lustful

• The dancers grasped the long dress of their
  partners so that it would not drag and be trodden
  upon, and lifted it high, holding them in this
  cloak which brought both bodies under one cover,
  as closely as possible against them and in this
  way that hand lay firmly on the breasts, at each
  movement making little lustful pleasures the
  girls went wild and looked as if they would drop.