Reaching the last of Europe's famed finishing schools requires driving from Montreux ... Alps that young women have enjoyed for nearly 60 years while learning proper etiquette and the fine art ...

For nearly 60 years, the Institut Villa Pierrefeu has ... including Princess Diana, attended Swiss finishing schools, but now only Pierrefeu remains standing. Neri told AFP that the etiquette ...

Mr Hanson says attendance at his in-person sessions increased by 60% after the pandemic ... a sure-fire way to avoid embarrassment. Finishing schools, which offer courses such as “international ...

a college preparatory school founded in 1843 by Sarah Porter in Farmington, Conn., is just one example of the early finishing schools that women flocked to in order to learn the ins and outs of ...

The sign on the door with a stick figure of a man overlaid with a big “X” will have to go now that the last Swiss finishing school, bending to economic reality and social change, is accepting men.

Attending a finishing school used to be the norm for young women of a certain generation. But now it has become much more of a rarity, with only a handful enrolling into such schools in the hope ...