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.

Parents and students are divided over etiquette classes offered by regional Victorian Christian schools, which include lessons for female students on how to walk in high heels. Workshop involved ...

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 ...

Hair, make-up and deportment lessons for girls as young as eight are set to be the next big thing to entice the marketing world's hot new demographic: "tween" girls. Once the domain of school-leavers, ...