TotallyTacky brings you the best in tacky, kitsch, retro, tasteless, funky and unusual things.
How do you fancy your home decked out in 70’s style? Brown and orange flock wallpaper with a green velour settee and a shag pile rug that comes up to your ankles? Gaudy colours, a mismatch of brightly coloured accessories for every room from the ceiling to the floor, the kitchen would have red, yellow & brown funky sauce dispensers shaped as fruit, the lounge may have a ‘bar area’ which consisted of soda siphons and a ‘globe’ to put the spirits and wine in, lava lamps decking every room, furniture and decoration were all big and great back in the 70’s, but these today could be construed as totally tacky, although a lot of the ‘flock’ style wallpaper is coming back into fashion courtesy of various home decorating programmes!!
Kitsch can be used to describe anything - from art to literature, fashion and of course bad taste.
The word kitsch comes from both the German and Yiddish language, it is widely held that the word started in the Munich art markets of the 1860’s & 70’s. It was used to describe cheap, very marketable pictures and sketches.
Garden gnomes, soda siphons, lava lamps, cocktail shakers, retro phones, heart shaped sunglasses, strip pens (tip them and watch them strip), babycham and rubber gloves with fur round the opening are all kitsch and tacky - great novel gift ideas!!
It takes genuine talent to outshine an acting juggernaut like David Hasselhoff. But, unbelievable though it may seem, the Hoff was once upstaged by a car. And it wasn’t just any old car, it was KITT, or to give its full title, the Knight Industries Two Thousand.
This sleek, customised Pontiac Trans-Am was impervious to attack, could cruise at 300mph and was loaded with hi-tech armaments. It could even talk, albeit in an incredibly camp, condescending voice. And now, thanks to your hairy-chested friends at the Firebox Foundation, you can own a fully-functioning, R/C version of one of rubbish TV’s greatest vehicles.
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