There are men who kiss ladies hands. I am not about the gentlemen between my husband and wife, I'm about those who are trying to enjoy old-fashioned and gallant and ... fell into the amicoshoneism. This term of the most time, according to which the data of the gentlemen nostalgic, denotes inappropriate familiarity or rustic clumsiness. In any way, the mobility of the handles in the execution of gentlemen contemporaries Turgenev or Chekhov would not be perceived.
The fact is that the Lyozhetels do not know the rules of the very etiquette, which is trying to imitate, and as a result, violate it as gross.
Rule 1. How to say goodbye, chooses a woman
There is an order in who who holds the door who covers the umbrella and who chooses a gesture for greeting and farewell.If a man and a woman greet and say goodbye, then the choice for a woman is - first, for the reasons of gallantry, secondly, from the patriarchal idea of a woman as a weak and defenseless, unable to fight, if a cap familiar to the farewell decides to kiss the lady. So if the lady filed a hand to fire, "kill" the gesture and start to climb her fingers - very rudely, it is almost rudeness, for which it was fitting to get silent and rejection of the house.
Rule 2. Not every woman kissing hand
Back to the side of the Rule of gloves, prohibiting the manipulation of a man with a naked hand of a lady that does not part bed with him, because the gloves themselves left only as an element of the outerwear.
According to etiquette, it is unable to kiss the hand of a unmarried lady. Nowadays, some insist on the amendment: unmarried obviously younger than thirty.
Rule 3. Hands do not touch lips
The exception is made for your favorite elderly rods, spouses and loving already taken. According to etiquette, the kiss is depicted above the glove or skin of the hand without real touch with lips. Otherwise, the familiarity turns into rudeness - whether the gentleman's hand to kiss to kiss in the village on the Batyushka, or he obscenely breaks the borders, pulling out to fight against relatives or friends of Women.Rule 4. The hand does not drag
Although now women are handing hand straight like men, anyway, some ladies are randomly or by virtue of upbringing can feed the hand to the palm down. This is not an invitation to a kiss if the hand is not raised towards the chin (approximately) men. The hand submitted for fire, respectively, shook - according to the old etiquette, very weak, not to harm the female brush unusual to any load, it is possible to finish it, but without an attempt to portray the edander. You want to portray gallantry at this point - lightly bow or lift the headdress.
If the lady raised his hand for a kiss, it can be lifted yet a drop, but not taken to drag to the mouth. On the contrary, a gentleman, holding a woman's palm, should kiss the ladies in a lung bow. If the lady is the same elderly aunt and she is hard to raise his hand high, then you can stand on your knees. But optional.
What to do, if no one serves the hand for a kiss?
To begin with, calm your desire to leave more of your saliva on foreign hands. Do not forget to try to offer loud - "Let your hand kiss you." Women who are not going to come immediately. Then - to start walking on retro parties and parties of ballroom dancing, where full lovers of old-fashioned and halanery. If for this you need to make any difficult, it seems to learn to dance, look neat and learn the foundations of etiquette, then come to compete and walk to kiss your hands to the church.
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