Why People Show Up Fashionably Late

When I was a kid, I noticed something…

Whenever my family and I went to a party, we rarely arrived on time.

The invitation might say the party starts at 8:00 PM, but we’d show up at 8:30, and we wouldn’t be the only ones arriving late.

As a child, I thought we were late, but in reality, everyone else was showing up around the same time.

As I grew up, I began to see this as the norm.

Showing up “fashionably late” was part of the social code.

But there’s a fine line between being fashionably late and just plain old late, and it’s something I had to learn over time.

There came a point when I started extending the concept of being fashionably late.

Instead of arriving 15 to 30 minutes late, I started arriving much later.

Like when the party was almost over!

My friends would joke, “Wow, Armani actually showed up! Just at the end!”

I quickly realized there’s a cutoff.

If you show up too late, it’s no longer fashionable…it becomes disrespectful to the host.

There’s an art to arriving fashionably late.