1930s dating rules
06-Jan-2020 08:03
When a boy picked up a girl at her house, he was supposed to ring the doorbell.Sitting in the car and honking the horn was a big no-no.The man and the woman usually were members of the same community, and the courting usually was done in the woman's home in the presence (and under the watchful eye) of her family, most often Mom and brothers.However, between the late 1800s and the first few decades of the 1900s the new system of "dating" added new stages to courtship.
While today it is still customary for men to make the first move, it was very frowned upon back in the day for girls to ask out guys.The ladylike rule in the 1950s was for women to tell their dates what they wanted beforehand so the man could order the food for you. If a woman tried to split or pay the whole thing, a man would be humiliated.