Customer Reviews
How to be a lady - By: 116redrock, 24 Jul 2008 
This book was a major disappointment.
Written by an American it advocates behaviour which would have curled the hair of my etiquette teacher at school, such as "If a lady discovers she can attend a party for which she has already declined an invitation, she callls her host & asks if she may attend" A lady would realise that when she declined her hostess would have to make alternate arrangements to fill the place. By telephoning to ask if she may come she is placing her hostess in a very awkward position.
Statements such as "a lady knows when to use a straw" are totallly usless to those who do not know as weare not enlighted as to Ms Simpson-Giles opionion on when one should reach for said straw.
There is no book yet written to better Debrett's & I,as an etiquette teacher, would rate How to be a Lady as a waste of money.
British manners are in high demand in North America, don't go teaching American ideas of manners in Britian, please.
Not recommended. - By: Aline Farkhrodine, 27 Mar 2007 This book is pretty much pointless. It provides little practical advice but rather phrases such as "a lady knows what to do when so & so happens..". So you're left to figure what that right thing to do is.
On eto give a Miss! - By: Jane Sorrell, 15 Nov 2006 
I was expecting a witty dialogue to go with the rules on being a lady. Unfortunately the book merely states the obvious - such as ' a lady never takes a mobile telephone into dinner' or ' a lady never wears revealing clothing'. It took an hour to read the contants which frankly could have been used more constructively.
Excellent - By: , 01 Aug 2004 
This book is great, it covers everyting from how to write a thank-you note, attending a wedding & a funeral, how to set a dinner table & much more, the author also writes some points which are smalll & easy to follow. A nice book.
