
I was skimming through Emily Posts's Etiquette online, mainly the section on dress, and came across this bit on what she considers "vulgar dress".
Vulgar clothes are those which, no matter what the fashion of the moment may be, are always too elaborate for the occasion; too exaggerated in style, or have accessories out of proportion. People of uncultivated taste are apt to fancy distortions; to exaggerate rather than modify the prevailing fashions.
For example: A conspicuous evidence of bad style that has persisted through numberless changes in fashion, is the over-dressed and over-trimmed head. The woman of uncultivated taste has no more sense of moderation than the Queen of the Cannibals. She will elaborate her hairdressing to start with (this is all right, if elaboration really suits her type) and then she will “decorate” it with everything in the way of millinery and jewelry that she can lay her hands on. Or, in the daytime, she fancies equally over-weighted hats, and rich-looking fur coats and the latest edition in the most conspicuous possible foot-wear. And she much prefers wearing rings to gloves. Maybe she thinks they do not go together? She despises sensible clothing; she also despises plain fabrics and untrimmed models.
Miss Post also exclaims "Rather be frumpy than vulgar!" I don't know about the rest of you, but being a Vulgar Cannibal Queen sounds a thousand times more thrilling than being frumpy or an uptight bitch who can't enjoy an evening if the salad fork is on the wrong side of the plate. Fuck you, Emily Post.
"Queen of the Cannibals?!" Burn!! How scathing! I agree with you, I'd rather be a happy Cannibal Queen than an uptight bitch. Fuck Emily Post!
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