Vintage Dating Tips That Seem Really Weird Today

[post_page_title]Don’t get engaged after a meal[/post_page_title]

A lot of the vintage dating tips on this list sound outdated, but era-appropriate. However, some of them just sound ludacris, and we wonder how they were ever taken seriously.

Don’t get engaged after a meal

In 1901, author Myrtle Reed wrote in her “The Spinster Book” that “no wise girl” should accept a man who proposed just after a meal or by moonlight. That would be a problem nowadays, because proposals during candlelight dinners are very popular. And what’s up with the moonlight thing? Was Myrtle afraid of werewolves?

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