The word ‘deportment’ sounds old-fashioned and rather pointless in today’s frantic world, evoking, as it does, images of staid girls in Swiss finishing schools walking across rooms with piles of books ...

It’s now the winter holiday season, and just like in the UK and USA, here in the UAE you see the girls dressed in impossible heels and wearing designers while staggering to various social venues. One ...

Deportment is as important as etiquette. When you master this fine art along with the skills of etiquette, you acquire a polished and an elegant image, which can work in your favour socially and ...

The word deportment sounds like it hails from another era, one in which girls were taught elocution to help them speak the Queen’s English and everyone wrote thank you letters with a fountain pen.