What determines something as common and tacky

Oh no Kandinsky may I respectfully disagree. Most women (and men) choose their tattoos, or indeed design them, to be an expression of their individuality.

I think in the future people without tattoos will be in the minority. They are here to stay.

Pinkcakes too - although of course your opinion is valid. I’m not suggesting my opinion is superior.

Common and tacky

Body piercings
Tattoos
Long talons
Nail varnish other than ballet slipper or french manicure
Overdone make up
Trout pout
Tight clothes
Unnatural/badly coloured hair
Botox frozen faces
Short skirts paired with low cut tops
Short skirts with fat legs
Smoking
Swearing
Being loud and aggressive
Intoxication
White high heeled shoes
Crocs
Eating in the street
Clothes with designer names on them
Handbags, luggage with designer names showing
Wearing track suits unless participating in sport
Men bareback unless on the beach, swimming pool, private gardens etc.
Women in swimwear unless on the beach, swimming pool, private gardens etc.
Builders bum
Low slung trousers showing underwear
Exposed beer belly
Bra straps showing
Sprayed on trousers/leggings unless on a slim body
Fluorescent clothing except for visibility reasons
Sparkly clothing on adults with exception of party clothes
Chewing gum
Sharpie or dead caterpillar eyebrows
Eyebrows plucked and drawn on instead
Garden with tasteless statues such as mooning gnomes
Houses over decorated for Christmas etc.
Pimped cars
Selfies

Oh gosh have to see to dinner. This was fun.

I seem to figure in about 25 of your list Espee ?

I do have fun though?

Peardrop it’s Pirate Nite on Friday....but we could do Posh Nite the week after? I have an old tweed skirt belonging to granny somewhere.

Everything except crocs Esspee I wouldn't be without mine.

My crocs are for pegging the washing out. They're pink...

When we were at the grammar school one of my friends was called to the headmistress' office because she had been seen talking to a coalman!!! In the street!!! Next day her mother was up at the school to see the headmistress. My friend was an ice skater and the coalman was her partner and she was perfectly at liberty to speak to him in the street. I can't help suspecting that the headmistress will still have thought it was common.

When I'm out with my sister I'm hurried along whenever I stop to look at anything glittery or anything with animal print material. Clearly she's posh and I'm - er - not!

That’s an interesting list Esspee.

For me the tackiest of all has to be people who dress up their dogs in little outfits. A dog coat on a cold or wet day is fine - but a nurses outfit, or a ballet dress on a dog -no no no.

lemongrove

Lucca

I’ve not heard the word common used for about fifty years,

Saw a couple of young women on their way into town last Friday. Politely I would describe their figures as extremely ....um....generous, and their outfits (bright red hot pants and boob tube for example) as um....ill-advised
But I never said tacky or the other word.

That was me and Doodle on our way to The Argy Bargy Bar
Last Friday was Ayia Napia Nite.?

Oh Lordy, didn’t recognise you without your pearls??

I once saw a girl in the Northumbrian town I used to work in wearing white see-through leggings with no underwear. Tacky possibly, but they were certainly graphic!

Lucca I only possess pearls of wisdom?

Gaga the mind boggles

I've had to Google "Sharpie" eyebrows, well just to make sure I haven't been giving myself any, because they don't sound good, in fact they sound as if they sound positively lethal and heavens above they look every bit as bad as they sound even some poor little babies had them drawn on!. Note to self "go easy on the eyebrow products" given brows have taken over from lashes! Once upon a time women had what at times looked something akin to spiders legs stuck on top of their own lashes, me included, but a long time ago! Now it seem the trend, as others have pointed out, is a desire to have a couple of dead slugs above the eyes, hopefully minus any slime!

When I went to school, patent shoes were deemed common by the nuns that taught us. They seemed to think one's knickers could be reflected in them, maybe that was wishful thinking on their part and they had a secret stash of them worn only when it was a full moon! which would be understandable as if there was a batshit spectrum they would have been right up there at the far end along with devotees of The Church of Scientology.

as if they sound

Puzzler61 Glad to hear it

GagaJo

I once saw a girl in the Northumbrian town I used to work in wearing white see-through leggings with no underwear. Tacky possibly, but they were certainly graphic!

Which town please ? I was brought up in Northumberland

*Dontmindstayinghome" I too had this drummed into me when young and I will confess seeing folk stuffing burger buns, sausage rolls etc in their face in the street still makes me cringe. So common!

Lucca

GagaJo

I once saw a girl in the Northumbrian town I used to work in wearing white see-through leggings with no underwear. Tacky possibly, but they were certainly graphic!

Which town please ? I was brought up in Northumberland

Why Lucca...could it have been you??

Blinko so are mine! I bought them after surgery on a toe years ago - the only thing that would accomodate the bandage - and I love them. Worn for gardening too - I wouldn't be without them.

When I had my ears pierced at age 32, my mother didn’t speak to me for days. Apparently only gypsies and common people have pierced ears. She did relent much later.

I hate to admit it but now I view the craze for crushed velvet and grey decor tacky, what's worse for me is, I've always quite liked the colour grey!
As I once heard someone say "trends are for the anxious" and I'm not referring to those who suffer from the condition....it's that blind following of "Instamum's" I find tacky.