Etiquette, by Emily Post, Part 3
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A Gentleman's Duty at the Opera
A gentleman must always be in full dress, tail coat, white waistcoat, white tie, and white gloves. He wears white gloves nowhere else except at a ball, or when usher at a wedding. As people usually dine with their hostess before the Opera, they arrive together. A gentleman never sits in the front row of a box, even though he is for a time alone in it.
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