{"id":935,"date":"2006-04-06T08:13:46","date_gmt":"2006-04-06T16:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/04\/as_usual_the_times_styles_section_is_right_on_top_of_current_trends.html"},"modified":"2006-04-06T08:13:46","modified_gmt":"2006-04-06T16:13:46","slug":"as_usual_the_ti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/as_usual_the_ti.html","title":{"rendered":"As Usual, The Times Styles Section Is Right On Top Of Current Trends"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know it’s hard out there when you primp<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The social kiss is unpredictable, agreed R. Couri Hay, the society editor at Hamptons magazine.<\/p>\n

“I never kiss on the first meeting,” he said, “but if someone offers a kiss, I feel I have to be polite and take it. Generally I really don’t want to be covered in lipstick.” The kiss “has been dumbed down,” Mr. Hay said. “It is supposed to be a sign of affection, but I’ve seen people recoil when they see someone they don’t even know coming in to lick their cheek.”<\/p>\n

Despite the awkwardness, the cheek, or social, kiss is displacing the handshake, once the customary greeting in American social and business circles. It may be a growing Latin influence, an aping of European manners, the influx of women in the workplace or just a breakdown of formality: no one seems to know. It’s not just celebrities smacking the air or diplomats puckering up with the European style double kiss or Soprano family wannabees mimicking a sign of forced fealty.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

The awkwardness — and inevitability — of the social kiss has led to strategies to deal with it. “I position my face just slightly to the side,” said Jeff Elsass, a Pilates instructor at the BioFitness Center in Manhattan, who is frequently greeted with kisses during his workday, “then I wait and see what the other person is going to do. That slight turn of the head can take you past the lip and the cheek.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know it’s hard out there when you primp: The social kiss is unpredictable, agreed R. Couri Hay, the society editor at Hamptons magazine. “I never kiss on the first meeting,” he said, “but if someone offers a kiss, I feel I have to be polite and take it. Generally I really don’t want to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culturalanthropological","category-the_new_york_times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}