this post is dedicated to my dear friend who watched all of her 5 sisters in law open up, in exciting sequence, gift after beautiful gift at Christmas from their mom only to find that she was given an oversized forest green caftan with large smiling ladybugs on it from this same woman (her mother in law).
“The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating” Susan Sontag
“Cheap ugliness is bad enough, but costly ugliness is a crime” House Beautiful 1904
“The kinds of people who go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste” Joe Orton
“A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika” Dorothy Parker
“Money and taste frequently move in inverse ratio” House Beautiful 1897
“In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste” Russel Lynes