STATIONERY.
MEN. The variations from plainness and quietness in the use of stationery that are permitted women are denied to men. Their paper is never perfumed, and all fancy styles are in poor taste.
For his social correspondence a man should use white or gray linen or bank-note unruled paper, folding once in the envelope.
He may, of course, use for social correspondence
his club stationery.
Under no circumstances should he use his
business stationery for social correspondence.
WOMEN. Unruled plain white or gray paper, that folds once in the envelope, and black ink, are the standard materials for social correspondence.
While it is permissible to use some of the latest fancy stationery, care should be taken that it is quiet in taste, and that all merely temporary variations are avoided.
While it is better not to use perfumed paper, if any perfume is used it should be extremely delicate.
Elderly women are apt to favor Irish linen
or similar stationery.
STRANGERS-INVITATIONS TO A BALL ASKED FOR BY FRIENDS.
See BALLS-INVITATIONS ASKED FOR STRANGERS.