Post vs Brummell: The Man Who Spent 5 Hours Dressing vs America's Etiquette Queen

EMILY POST vs BEAU BRUMMELL go head to head — and every jab is rooted in real history.

EMILY POST

Mr. Brummell, courtesy is putting others at ease - not spending five hours perfecting a cravat while your creditors starve.

BEAU BRUMMELL

Madam, if a man is well dressed, no one notices him at all - that is the truest courtesy, to be flawless without shouting it.

EMILY POST

And yet you died penniless in exile, while my books put a fork in every American's proper hand.

BEAU BRUMMELL

You gave the masses rules, dear lady; I gave them a standard so high that no rulebook could ever capture it.

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