Letitia Baldrige Quotes

Wearing a baseball cap or sleeveless shirt in a white-tablecloth restaurant is rude and makes other diners upset, just like someone on a cellphone.

The locale does not determine the dress code; the host does.

If I'm not comfortable, I'm not happy. When I go to the White House, I wear my jeans.

I find it odd that people will go to a nice restaurant or to the theater in jeans and T-shirts.

Rod always dresses for dinner - even if I just want to wear tracksuit bottoms, he dresses up.

The hat is not for the street: it will never be democratized. But there are certain houses that one cannot enter without a hat. And one must always wear a hat when lunching with people whom one does not know well. One appears to one's best advantage.

So Stapes conducted a dinner for just the two of us, then informed me of a dozen small but important mistakes I had made. Setting down a dirty utensil was considered crude, for example. That meant it was perfectly acceptable to lick one's knife clean. In fact, if you didn't want to dirty your napkin it was the only seemly thing to do.

Like at home, I don't wear heels. But everywhere else I go, I wear heels.

My mom dressed me in silk to go to elementary school. In kindergarten, they sent me home because I couldn't do finger painting in my dress.

Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.

My father was a graduate student at Oxford in the early 1960s, where the conventions and etiquette of clothing were crucial to the pervasive class consciousness of the place and time.

There is etiquette in golf, but it's not any harder to learn than what to do at a dinner party. Actually, it's probably easier. And these days, there are a lot more women out there than there used to be. It's not like when I was young. I was always the only girl on the range.

My nightmare of nightmares is being overdressed for a casual event - I've done it! You have to have a real sense of what you want to communicate.

I think if you've been invited to someone's house, you eat what they serve you. Even if you leave hungry, you be gracious enough to eat what they've prepared.

I don't like public venues. I never know what to wear.

It is impossible to be taken seriously in shorts. No one has ever cared about anything said by a man in shorts.

I'm not a fan of underdressing, I think it's better to be overdressed than underdressed.

I get more disgusted with men all the time - particularly traveling Americans. They start out on a trip to Europe and never bother to pack a dinner jacket. This is not only stupid - it's bad manners.

Never wear a button-down collared shirt with a double-breasted suit. The more formal double-breasted suit looks best with the more formal spread or long-point collar.

It's not polite to refuse to dress for a parly. It's an insult to your hostess. After all, correct dress is a part of good manners.

Dressing up used to be more of a thing. My dad wore a suit always. Now you think, why bother?

There are times to be casual and times to be correct. It's all right to wear a sweater and slacks on a picnic, but they don't belong in the theater or the drawing room.

Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?

When we go to the opera, we put the clothes on we know we must wear for there.

I was always taught how to dress for the occasion.