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Can you keep a secret?
The Journal asked you to send in your secrets via PostSecret postcards. Here’s what we got.
Previously in Postscript
November 13, 2009
Jimmy Choo’s cheap and chic
The most innovative of fashion trends often take root in the most turbulent of times. The nylon stocking, for example, was introduced to the U.S. market in 1940, immediately following the Great Depression and preceding the Second World War.
November 10, 2009
The evolving role of postcards
On an idle Sunday afternoon, I spent my day catching up with Frank Warren. After his recently released fifth Postsecret book, Confessions On Life, Death and God and his teeming mailbox, Warren has become an icon—a remote therapist whose client list includes not a single name.
November 6, 2009
From Fendi to fast fashion
Collections on the runway and the realm of high fashion are frequently associated with an industry of vanity—deemed a frivolous extravagance only attainable to a select few. Despite the seemingly detached quality of high fashion, its covert influence on the average person is very profound—and delving deeper into the circular nature of the industry makes runway fashion’s transcendence hard to ignore.
November 3, 2009
Playing the name game
With the likes of Apple, Bronx Mowgli and Moon Unit, one thing’s certain—names are strange things. Poet W.H. Auden called them poetry in the raw and deemed them as untranslatable, but others attribute names the power to determine one’s personality when he or she grows up.
October 30, 2009
Slack-o'-lantern
Don’t know what to dress as tomorrow night? Postscript has you covered with these last-minute ideas
