Advice Miss Manners: Little miss sundress revealing more than I’m comfortable with, and the neighbors notice Published: Jun. 26, 2025, 10:30 a.m.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I need to know if I am justified in feeling miffed. Let me set the scene: I was the second of three people waiting in line to pay for our purchases at a local shop in our small town ...

Advice Miss Manners: I just want a little peace and quiet, but my door is in worst place imaginable Published: Mar. 13, 2025, 11:00 a.m.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I’m a community volunteer who participates in and has created community organizations to do a variety of projects -- arts, history, service, political advocacy and so forth.

Dear Miss Manners: What is a polite way to refuse a hug with friends or strangers? What to do when my proffered handshake is batted away and a hug pursued instead? Some men, especially, seem to ...

Dear Miss Manners: I have had season tickets to the orchestra for a couple of decades. For evening concerts, the orchestra wears white tie, and women soloists wear evening dress. For afternoon ...

I don’t know how to continue to work with these people and see them daily knowing they are reporting every little thing I do.

Do you announce how bored you are when listening to your spouse’s little daily troubles? If your honest answers are yes, then you are not practicing honesty as a virtue, but using it as a weapon.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am a woman who works at a home repair store, where I routinely help customers load heavy merchandise into their vehicles. I am a small woman who is strong for her size. A lot ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My daughter got married in the country where she now lives. Many family members and friends were unable to attend, and so we held a second reception a few months later at our ...

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin addresses the concern of a reader who wants to maintain honesty while being polite, suggesting that etiquette requires balancing both ...

There are less intrusive ways to get to know people, but you have led Miss Manners to believe that friendship, or even acquaintanceship, is not your objective; rather, it is playing your little ...