Etiquette expert asks where have our manners gone
THE year is 2011 and etiquette expert Anna Musson is asking where our manners have gone.
In bygone eras, there were complex rules on everything from shaking hands to serving poultry, walking down main streets or travelling on a tramcar.
In colonial Australia, people addressed others using their titles, such as Mr and Mrs, and children were to be seen, not heard.
Today, the rigid rules of etiquette have gradually died with the passing of each generation.
And we are spending less time in face-to-face interactions because of mobile technology, e-business and social networking sites.
It’s in this climate of limited social interaction, that Ms Musson has found success.
The 38-year-old Killarney Heights resident founded her business, the Good Manners Company, in 2007 and conducts regular workshops for corporate high-flyers, football players and high school teens.
Major Australian women’s and men’s magazines, TV morning shows and Sydney radio stations have all featured Ms Musson, who can be recognised for her blonde bob, lipstick smile and penchant for pearls.
In one magazine interview, she calls Brisbane people more rude than Sydneysiders.
In another, she advises against using the expressions “yep” or “no worries” and advocates handwritten, thank-you notes.
Some of her advice on social functions is quite precise: always arrive within 10 minutes of the start time, never on time and stay for a maximum of two hours during the day or two-and-a-half-hours if it is in the evening.
She also has answers for questions some may not have even thought about, such as whether your socks should match your shoes or your trousers. (The answer is your shoes, by the way.)
Her courses and programs cover situations which can be minefields for social faux pas: formal dinners, the work environment and business attire.
Raised in Christchurch, New Zealand, Ms Musson came to Sydney at the age of 20 to seek fame and fortune.
She worked in five-star hotels dealing with high-profile clients and about five years ago began working with Sydney’s veteran etiquette expert, June Dally-Watkins.
While working with Ms Dally-Watkins she was already running etiquette courses at her local church.
“Then I said, ‘if I can do this for a living, this would be my dream job’,” she said. “I really do live and breathe this stuff.
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