Description
It is indeed a Tacky, Rude World, which we inhabit. The Etiquette Grrls have decided that things are simply getting out of hand, and they have Taken It Upon Themselves to step in with a helpful guide to navigate the Etiquette Quandaries in your day-to-day life. They dish up advice on cohabitation, letter-writing, telephoning, traveling, grooming, drinking, dining, dating, and marriage and, it would be Terribly Rude of you not to pay attention.
Who are they, you ask, to be writing such a book? The Etiquette Grrls are graduates of New England Preparatory Schools and Prestigious Colleges; they are throwers of Great Parties; they can hold their liquor; their expertise on fashion and make-up and—especially Subversive Nail Polish colors-knows no bounds; they wear Doc Martens with their cashmere twin sets; and, most important, they know what they're talking about.
The Etiquette Grrls' advice has been featured in Ladies Home Journal, Chicago Sun-Times, and Business Week Online.
About the Author
A young man, a graduate of Deerfield Academy and Princeton University, takes his first job at a conservative publication. Within one week, this intrepid young reporter is walking around the office in cutoff shorts and bare feet.A young couple, out on a Saturday-night date at a chic nightspot, are snappily dressed in vintage clothing, and order their martinis with aplomb. However, they chomp on their olives loudly, and make an unseemly roduction of stealing the bar's distinctive swizzle sticks.A girl is staggering under the weight of an air conditioner. It is a very hot day, and she approaches a heavy door, which blocks her progress. A nearby boy watches with interest, as he stands idly by, enjoying a coldbeverage.We are appalled.Something has to be done.We know what it is, and we know who has to do it.This is a job for the Etiquette Grrls.The Etiquette Grrls have compiled their wisdom in two books that every young person needs,Things You Need to Be Told: A Handbook for Polite Behavior in a Tacky, Rude WorldandMore Things You Need to Be Told: A Guide to Proper Comportment in a Tacky, Rude World.These are not your grandmother's etiquette books, with ample advice on how your calling cards should be engraved and how to host debutante teas. Rather, the EGs' books are guides to behaving properly in everyday situations -- in the office, on a date, at parties, at public events, even on the Internet.The younger generation has discovered swing music and jazz, martinis, and cigars -- now there is a need to revive the manners that accompany such sophisticated tastes.The EGs' tone is tongue-in-cheek, but their advice is timeless, timely, and sincere. Their mission: to impart chivalry and grace and to eradicate rudeness amongst young adults.With their rapier-like wit, the Eiquette Grrls, in an arch fashion, dissect the spectre of rudeness in our society. And as said spectre lies bleeding in the streets, they repair to a swanky bar and toss back a few. They're just that sort of people.The Etiquette Grrls in a nutshell? The wit of Christopher Buckley meets the style of Babe Paley, then puts on Doc Martens and dashes off to the Stork Club for drinks with Scott and Zelda.Praise for TYNTBT/MTYNTBT:- "The Etiquette Grrls are very funny, very wise, and very in your face. It's easier to learn manners when you're laughing rather than crying." -- Letitia Baldrige, author, etiquette expert, White House Social Secretary to First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.- "I laughed aloud. Those girls have got something there." -- Robert Sean Leonard, actor.- "I fell completely in love with [The Etiquette Grrls]...they devote as much energy and enthusiasm to a thrift-store place setting as [Emily] Post did to Spode china and the heirloom silver...Their advice is better than that from some of their elders." -- P.J. O'Rourke, author, humorist, satirist,The New York Times Sunday Book Review.- "If The Girls from The Rules...had a clue, they'd...start paying attention to this ultimate how-to girl manifesto." -- Marcelle Karp, co-author of The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order and co-founder ofBustMagazine- "Outrageous fun." --Houston Chronicle- "Lessons that we would all do well to learn...such good sense." --Montreal Gazette- "Very tongue-in-cheek but quite palatable, practical advice for those not in the know." --Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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