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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tacky/trashy no matter the "culture".[/quote]

According to you, but who appointed you King or Queen? Trashy is a value judgment and it is very much dependent on the cultural values of people. SO if for most of the world it is considered culturally acceptable and prefereable regardless of educational level/ class level/ income level, then how does it become trashy just because you deem it so? [/quote]

I'm not the PP but you can't really believe any of our fashion judgments are otherwise, right?  Whether a dress is boring, great, or vulgar has to do with which country you are in and who your audience is. No one appointed any of us Queen. You like one dress and I don't like it. Or I think it is lovely and sexy and you think it is over-the-top and slutty. Fine.  Neither of us is Queen, whatever that would mean.

I'm sure OP doesn't care if some people think baby earrings are trashy just like she doesn't care if a stranger thinks her daughters dress is cute or not. Why the special hatred for this one type of fashion judgment? [/quote]

Because it is judging people based on class on assumptions about them as a people. The judgment is not a mere "fashion judgment" and comes wiht a lot more vitriol. It is not just saying I do not like blue dresses or ballet flats don't go well with trousers.  Exhibit A- the 91 comments this thread has inspired.  To claim that it is just a "fashion judgment" is inconsisten with the facts- trashy indicates that those people that make the choice are inferior and one that does not make that choice occupy a different part of society. 
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