I have heard from several sources that when peanut butter was first introduced, it was considered a luxury item. Definitely tacky then and now in at least one sense of the word.
Lots of 50’s style food but especially aspic.
In many parts of California, $250,000 “beachfront” property means that the house was flooded and is full of mold. And the “bay windows” are bullet holes.
That was the era where they decided that lime jello was something that should be paired with meat.
It’s a second home (as Ludovic mentions), is bayfront (the better to drop the boat’s anchor a few hundred yards from the back door), and there is no beach. They’ve had the place for a while (I looked it up, because I’m nosy.)
It’s not a huge house, but it’s nice, and has a good deck.
Where do you put your wine, your towel, and your book? And where does the cat sit?
Kale
It’s also full of perfectly serviceable low-end household goods and foodstuffs and, honestly, there aren’t a lot of alternatives for poor and middle-class households for a lot things they have.
Furthermore, the point was that “tacky” is relative. And it is. They may seem tacky to you, but saying that the substantial portion of the population genuinely has no sense of appropriateness just seems really dehumanizing to me.
You know, I thought that it would be funny to make vinyl mainstream again, so hipsters would start listening to cassettes and get stuck with poor sound quality. Just to mess with them. The fact that they did that to themselves makes me feel like I lost somehow.
Of course their music sucks anyway, so I still win.
My aunt had onelike this in the 1950s. I thought it was really cool, especially the little beady eyes and the paws.
Or even worse: in reference to violent criminals.
My mother is a retired police transcriptionist, and whenever an officer used that word, she would type “man”. She also did not use the word “lady” in reference to female criminals.
Either that, or “gentlemen” is preceded by “can I help you…” and generally implies an employee heading off a man who might cause trouble.
According to Idiocracy, “particular individual” will be the future version of that.
Its about time someone repurposes all those fur stolas and coats into something modern. Trouble is, the target group for upcycled stuff is anti-fur.
As for the op: go big or go home frothy lacy wedding dresses.
Of course some of us have the kind of timeless taste that never goes out of style. We knew that avocado fridges were tacky even when everyone else was buying them. 
That’s pretty much what the ones my wife is trying to unload look like. They feel incredible, I must say.
Your Mum.
Usenet.
Consistent with that, in the United States, “gentleman” is also what Members of Congress call each other.
Well, kale started off as poverty food anyway, it was something that would grow in virtually any soil, without much looking after, to last through winter. It was the sort of thing my Grandad grew in the back garden for some cheap vegetables through winter.
It suddenly being taken up as a fashionable foodstuff was the unusual thing, not it becoming a common food again. It’s been a common food for centuries.
True; the largest target group IS totally anti-fur.
I’ve seen several recycled fur items on Etsy, and have been considering buying a few. I like fur and have no problem wearing a) wild-caught fur of certain species, or b) fur that is pre-consciousness-raising era.
I’m pretty sure someone has said this, but you might want to contact sellers who repurpose items like these for Etsy. Those could be remade into earmuffs, headbands, or wrist cuffs (to put on gloves). Maybe into a small collar to wear over a sweater (mmm, with a dark grey or ivory cashmere sweater…).
But these days, no one wants the heads and paws.
That’s what I was thinking. You can’t even get a house on Lake George for anything less than a million dollars.
When I was in high school in the late 70’s early 80’s, if you had clothing made by OP you were in. Now it’s one of the chapest clothing brands sold by Wal*Mart.