If you can imagine, there was once a world where you would thank someone not by tagging them in an Instagram story, but by sending them a personal note.
Whether handwritten on custom stationery or dictated to an assistant and typed out on a type writer, the thank you note was a valued - nay, necessary - social gesture.
Certainly, this crucial correspondence corner stone has seen more popular days. Perhaps it's that no one has stamps lying around anymore, or, that our digitally obsessed generation is intimidated by all things semi-formal.
Looking for inspiration to get yourself back in the old fashioned mail game?
Simon Doonan recently shared three thoughtful notes he received from one Ms. Diana Vreeland. One thanked him for his hard work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, one for a gift he gave her from the Liberace Museum, and one for sending her a Frederick's of Hollywood catalogue that sold butt pads.
No matter the occasion, Diana's response was a graceful expression of gratitude. A class act and a true template to follow, no?
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