DEAR MISS MANNERS: My wife has been trying to find out the proper placement of chairs after getting up from the dining table. Are they to be left back, or repositioned under the table? Does this change when it’s women only, versus when men are present?
GENTLE READER: Etiquette interests itself in many arcane points, but the placement of the furniture after people are done with it is not usually among them. So long as the chairs are upright, not blocking the exit, and in the same general area in which they started the evening, Miss Manners assures your wife that will suffice.
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