Miley
Wallpaper? In the 70’s/early 80’s it was in many higher end suburban homes. Heck, I remember how proud my family was of grasscloth wallpaper.
Now, it’s a sign of pure tackiness
You could probably say the same thing about that ‘wood’ paneling that was everywhere for a while. Wood paneling in a country estate is still veddy veddy upper crust, but that faux wood synthetic ‘stuff’ in a regular house is an automatic tear-out.
Showing off a pineapple at a party.
But it’s the international symbol of hospitality!
Waitstaff who all happen to be black is one thing. What you’re talking about it quite another.
Would cassette players count here?
They’ve already come back around to hipsterism. Maybe they could go in the thread for “high end does x, middle does y, low end does x” because really small bands still put stuff out on cassette because it’s cheap even if they are not hipsters.
What, like waitstaff made up entirely of Maori rugby players? Because I can’t help but think that would be awesome.
“Waiter, there’s a fly in my soup.”
Waiter: GLARE
“Oh, sorry, my mistake, I guess that was just an ordinary raisin…with wings.”
I remember reading an interview with somebody and the question asked was, “When did you really realize you were rich?” And the guy said he was taking his car–a Jag I think–in for some routine thing or other, and he happened to recall that when he had a Subaru, he did not know his mechanic’s name, or need to. And he realized he was rich enough that he did not need a Jag and could go and buy himself another Outback. So he did.
I personally cannot wait until asparagus gets low class and is no longer the vegetable of choice at fancy steak houses. Not that I go to fancy steak houses for vegetables in the first place. But then they will probably come up with something even worse. (I know, it’s hard to imagine.)
“I hate All Blacks! Hey, why are people throwing things at me?”
If we want to look at language, I think one example might be the use of the word “gentleman”, at least in Southern Ontario. The only place I see that word used is on “Gentlemen’s Clubs”, in other words strip clubs.
My father-in-law inherited, from an elderly neighbor, two sable stoles of the sort popular in the early twentieth century - that is, including the heads and claws of the animals. (The purpose, so far as I can tell, was to show that they weren’t fake. Pretty gruesome, I have to say.)
He tried selling them, but, living as he does in the armpit of Florida, got no takers. So he sent them up here to us, to see if we could do better. My wife has tried just about every antique seller and vintage clothes dealer, and nada. Nobody is interested. Dunno if it’s the moral issue, or simple aesthetics, but it’s been almost a year and not a bite.
Often you can find very nice fur coats at thrift stores.
Vacationing in Cancún
Cruise ships
Aluminium cutlery was all the rage among the rich in the 19th century (Napoleon III had a set made for state dinners); it used to cost more than gold cutlery. Gelatin used to be an exotic dessert choice because of how difficult and labour intensive it was to prepare.
The Ball-point pen.
From Wiki
Also: Gimbal’s nemesis, Macy’s.
Both were definitely upscale; It was well into the 1980’s before Macy’s California (at least the CA operation) would accept Visa or MasterCard - it would accept only its own card or AMEX.
Has anyone mentioned beauty queens?
Being overweight.
I don’t think the Walmart shopper has a concept of tacky. The objection to thrift stores is that the stuff is not “brand new.”