NoMoreSpendsEva
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Kitsch Kitsch Kitsch Kitsch
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Kitsch Kitsch Kitsch Kitsch
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I've never really understood exactly what kitsch means!
Lots of definitions on the web but here's a particularly amusing one - couldn't have phrased it any better myself really (lol):
"something of tawdry design, appearance, or content created to appeal to popular or undiscriminating taste."
Think gnomes, 60's plastic kitchen items, tasteless art, flying wall ducks.........anything tacky, gaudy, OTT, mass-produced, tat! Often a poor copy of a (better & classier!) original idea/style etc.!
Hardly the way to describe any of QVC's goods by a presenter!
In some cases, it's true, but it's not going to sell anything.........
I thought kitsch had connotations of being desirable in an odd sort of way, a bit like the famous (or is it infamous) pink flamingo!
I wish I could tune her out. She's just spent what seemed like hours talking about climbing a ladder to get in her bathroom window when she and the famous Hubby locked themselves out. How many times can she repeat the fact that she's scared of heights? Does she really think we're fascinated? And in the end, after all that, she didn't do it. A neighbour had to come to the rescue.
I thought kitsch had connotations of being desirable in an odd sort of way, a bit like the famous (or is it infamous) pink flamingo!
Bet that story was introduced/interspersed with/finished off by informing us fascinated dear listeners that it was 'so hil-aaaaaar-ious' too?
Lots of definitions on the web but here's a particularly amusing one - couldn't have phrased it any better myself really (lol):
"something of tawdry design, appearance, or content created to appeal to popular or undiscriminating taste."
Think gnomes, 60's plastic kitchen items, tasteless art, flying wall ducks.........anything tacky, gaudy, OTT, mass-produced, tat! Often a poor copy of a (better & classier!) original idea/style etc.!
Often a poor copy of a (better & classier!) original idea/style etc.!
Do you think kitsch is a 'bran new' word for her ?