DAILY LIFE IN U.S.

DRESSING RULES

• The mode in the United States is eclectic and predominantly informal. The jeans became popular as articles of work in the decade of 1850 for the merchant Levi Strauss, a German immigrant of San Francisco, and it was adopted by several American teenagers one century later.

If we have to speak about the traditional pomps of The United States we must mention the suits of the first settlers of this country on having joined the colonies that were shaping it, being, considered the suit of cowboy as the most symbolic and emblematic of the North Americans.

DATING AND MARRIAGE CUSTOMS

• The boyfriend and the girlfriend must put on a currency in his respective shoes to attract the good fortune.

• The boyfriend must see neither to the girlfriend nor to his garment before the ceremony.

• The boyfriend must take the tie correctly put, since if the crooked ride means that it him would be unfaithful to the girlfriend.

• The flowers represent emotions and merit; they carry a message of fertility, bloom and generosity. The superstition says that the lucky one that catches the branch of the girlfriend will been lucky and be the near one in marrying.

BRITISH PROVERBS

• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.• Más vale pájaro en mano que ciento volando.

• A cat in gloves catches no mice.• Gato con guantes no caza ratones.

• A stitch in time saves nine.• Más vale prevenir que curar.

• A word is enough to the wise.• A buen entendedor, pocas palabras bastan.

• Absence makes the heart grow fonder.• La ausencia alimenta al corazón.

• All cats are grey in the dark.• Por la noche todos los gatos son pardos.

• Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know.• Más vale malo conocido que bueno por conocer.