Many guests at Idea Chic are exploring letter writing and have questions. We are happy to have the conversation. A great resource we have in-store is Emily Post's Etiquette Centennial Edition book. This book provides you with the etiquette rules, which has been updated in this 100 year edition and modernized by Lizzie Post and Daniel Post Senning. Emily Post is the original proprietor of etiquette with her first book release in 1922. We keep a store copy for reference as well as other copies available for sale. 

Here are the stationery wardrobe options: 

Fold-over Notes and Envelopes
Purpose: Thanks, condolences, congratulations, special occasion
Size: Various, most common 4.25" x 5.5"

Correspondence Cards and Envelopes (Flat Paneled)
Style: Name, monogram, or family crest, optional border
Purpose: Great for quick notes, follow-up, thanks, invitations
Size: Various, most common 4.25" x 5.5 and 4.5" x 6.25

Full-Page Letter Paper and Envelopes
Style: Name and/or address suggested (centered at the top)
Purpose: Personal business letters
Size: 8.5" x 11" sheets

Note or Monarch Sheets and Envelopes
Style: Name and/or address suggested (centered at the top)
Purpose: Social Letters
Size: 6.375" x 8.25" (flat paneled) or 7.25" x 10.5" (sheet)

Pens, Postage and Accessories
Keeping pens you like to write with and a variety of postage with your stationery makes writing easier and getting notes and letters into the mail much more likely. Wax stampers have become very popular in recent years. We can design and order a custom stamper just for you. 

The Idea Chic in-store Paper Pantry, gives you several blank staples to choose from - Letter sheets, to cards, envelopes and accessories. 

Post & Post Senning, Lizzie and Daniel. "Conversation & Correspondence." Emily Post's Etiquette, The Centennial Edition, Penguin Random House, LLC, 2022, pp. 118-119.