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What is considered "fashionably late"?

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  • by si raistrick on January 30th, 2005

    si raistrick

    How late fashionably late is depends on a number of variables, including
    - current fashions
    - your culture and what is acceptable in it
    - the culture of the country in which you live and what is acceptable in it (if different)
    - the culture of the person or people being met
    - the type of engagement
    - the location of meeting
    - the time of day
    - how generally fashionable you are
    - your excuse, if given.

    For example, if you are extremely fashionable (say, a fashion model), you are meeting someone in Milan for a drink and it is 1am, and the other person is Italian and the meeting is in a bar, you are expected to arrive at least 4 hours late. Extra fashion points if you claim you were late because you 'met someone cute'.

    However, if you are generally not a very fashionable person, it is the late 1980s, you are meeting for a job interview as an engineer and you are in, say, Denver, then it is probably fashionable to arrive an hour early.

    Also, it could be said that in the latter example you are probably so unfashionable that you don't really care about the dictations of fashion anyway.

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