STYLETHREAD -- LET'S TALK SHOP!

Kelly · Hermes

How often do you write letters?

calichic · Dooney & Bourke

I write them a few times a month to my bf who lives across the country. When we were in the same city, I might have written one a year. I think that receiving hand-written letters from loved ones are the best. Especially in this age of IM, email, texting, etc.

valenciana · Dooney & Bourke

i send a lot of cards...birthday cards, thank you cards, sympathy cards, cards to cheer people up when i know they've been stressed or going through rough times. i try to write a little note in them to make them more personal. but i rarely write actual letters. i do occasionally though.

which reminds me...it's been like 2 years since i wrote to my dear, sweet madre/host mother from when i studied abroad. i need to get on that.

AllieGurl · Marc Jacobs

I write thank you notes to my store customers every day. My mom got me in the habit when I was a kid to always write thank yous - I guess it stuck!

kittenheels · Coach

I really try to be good about mailing birthday cards to my friends...I send sympathy cards, get well cards, and lots and lots of thank you notes. I love getting mail! When I was little at sleep away camp, my mother would send me a letter for every day of camp...and she got me in the compulsive thank you note camp...I love stationary too, and am always looking for excuses to buy more!

Bastet · Kate Spade

What is this "letter" thing you are speaking of? Aside from cards and thank you notes, I don't think I've written a letter since I went away to college several years ago. My handwriting is horrendous, and no matter how hard I try to make it look pretty, it looks like a first grader got a hold of my pen. My writing is so bad that I seriously considered sending my wedding thank you stationary through the printer! I think I'm also very technology dependent (probably excessively so), and I would rather be able to email/text/call someone and have instant access rather than wait for something to make its way in the mail.

sydney · Kate Spade

I love writing letters to friends a few times a year. It's so unexpected to receive them and people always feel special, that you thought of them enough to send a cute card or letter.

mikacat · Coach

i always write sympathy, thank you, sick, wedding or birthday cards.

I feel thank you should be handwritten not emailed.

I have way to much stationery by the way.

blink · Coach

I write to a hometown guy friend who is in prison (for selling drugs, nothing violent).

And I write in notecards to my family members when I send out my new portrait photos of my sons.

Brittnoodle · Nine West

I write letters several times a month. I have a friend at USAFA (the Air Force Academy) and he writes me whenever he's in "confinement" for something, which seems to be slightly too often. So, I get the stationary out for him.

P.S. - gorgeous stuff at Anthro, in-store.