![]() ![]() “She would have loved the sharing of photos with family and the like, but I think she would say what we say, which is that when it gets too personal, it’s a problem.”Īnd then there are dinner parties, a meal with friends sandwiched between status updates and careful cropping a simple pleasure that was once one of the great joys of entertaining in the era of the elder Post, who crafted it into a fine art. “I think she would have thought all of it was so cool,” guesses Lizzie Post, her great-great-granddaughter and current mantle carrier of the etiquette doyenne’s legacy at the Emily Post Institute in Vermont. When Emily Post published her defining treatise on manners and entertaining, breezily titled Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home, in 1922, she hardly could have imagined our world now, where FaceTime doesn’t mean actual face-to-face conversation, and the first thing guests say to each other is “Can I use your charger?”
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