Women Can’t Hold A Drink
Vogue’s 1948 Book of Etiquette had a lot to tell regarding drinking women – and none of it was good. According to the guide, “‘She will definitely keep her liquor’ is not a compliment.” Is it easier to wobble about after only one beer, then? We doubt it.

Women Can’t Hold A Drink
Never Speak To A Smoking Man
A gentleman from the Victorian period will never light up in front of a lady. But it would also be impolite for a lady to engage in discussion with a guy who had already begun puffing on his preferred cigar. That’s because he’d have to throw out the stogie, and no guy would be pleased with such waste.

Never Speak To A Smoking Man