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This is where you’ll find all the etiquette insights and sartorial inspiration to learn the art of elegance, manners, and style.
15 Signs You're A Boy, Not A Man
What began in many Reddit threads years ago has become a dominant corner on all social media causing men to worry whether they are one or not. Having been a shy boy who still learns more every year, this list may be the ultimate masculine metric to go by.
7 Conversation Hacks To Overcome Nerves
Effective communication isn’t a talent. It’s a skill. We’ve distilled it down to seven tried and tested methods so that you too can beat the networking nerves and work the room in full confidence.
How Gentlemen Ask Women Out On Instagram
Making the first move is no less trepidatious online than it is offline. Will this be love at first like? There's only one way to find out with this etiquette guide on how gentlemen can ask women out on social media non-creepily.
The 10 Most Common Restaurant Etiquette Questions Answered
The key to successful dating or breaking bread with friends beyond simply charisma and conviviality is a good working knowledge of dining customs. Ensuring the utmost charm at the table requires knowledge of some etiquette fundamentals – here they are.
How To Pick The Perfect Gift: Christmas Etiquette Guide
Do they even know what they want? What makes a great gift versus a bad one? Is cash acceptable? John-Paul answers the most common etiquette questions so that you may pick the perfect gift this Christmas.
How To Recite Poetry In Conversation
Why read what is beautiful? Well, why believe what is true? Why do what is good? The person who asks these questions has missed the fundamental point.
Casino Etiquette: Is Gambling Gentlemanly, Ever?
Life is but a gamble, but should flipism guide your ramble? A short read on whether a fleeting flutter is a gallant pastime becoming of a modern gentleman.
5 Fragrance Etiquette Rules For Gentlemen
Choking on a scent has never been preferable to anyone, let alone one’s potential employer or date, but if you think that’s the only fragrance faux pas, you’d be wrong.
How To Be The Perfect Host At Home
It’s not La Gavroche. It’s La Living Room, and your guests are human beings, not guinea pigs for your new culinary escapades. Here is John-Paul Stuthridge’s etiquette guide to make you the host with the most.
15 Ways To Build Chemistry On The First Date
Good body language, no ex-talk, elegant choice of clothing, intriguing questions – but what else can you do to make sure lurve is in the air?
Demystifying Wine Etiquette: Why Less is More
What are you ‘getting’, exactly? Clarion calls of something or other? John-Paul offers his off-the-cuff thoughts on wine etiquette in real life.
9 Rules For Living Elegantly: A Gentleman’s Guide
Elegance is back and as sacred a commodity as ever, particularly in tailoring, but what other principles can we practically implement for true elegant living?
Why Some Conversations Never Click: Understanding the Three Zones of Communication
Insufficient clicking is not down to boring topics of conversation, it’s down to you.
How To Have More Engaging Conversations
Three powerful and instantly actionable methods to look and sound more interesting to people.
The Subtle Details of Excellent Restaurant Service
How impeccable service can transform a meal into a masterpiece, from seating arrangements to unspoken languages.
Workplace Water Dispenser Etiquette: Top Tips For Thirsty Work
There's nothing worse than sitting at your desk with a throat dryer than the Sahara desert. In the winter, the radiators on full blast can dry out our skin (the largest organ in your body), and in the summer, we lose so much water by cooling down.
23 Qualities That Make You A Gentleman
We are all about chivalry here on Man For Today, including elegant living, confident communication, and unmatchable interpersonal skills delivered with charm and panache.
Should I Propose To Her At Christmas? Engagement Etiquette Tips
You have popped open the champagne (or 'bubbly' as your friends might say), and now you think you should pop the question.
What is The Etiquette of Being Late? Manners & Tardiness
Last week, I read a long story online in a forum from a gentleman who decided to divorce his wife after about ten years of marriage. The reason? She was always late for everything.
5 Common Conversation Mistakes
Tactful. This is a word you will get acquainted with most in this article as we explore why you have dropped yourself in it previously and why you have dug yourself a deeper hole. It is okay.