https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-just-thought-of-another-word-which-causes-allergic-reations Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Tue, 05 May 2026 09:38:34 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-just-thought-of-another-word-which-causes-allergic-reations/page/2#post-198883 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:29:35 +0000 Barbara 198883@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Tacky makes me think of Goldie Hawn in "OVERBOARD" when Roddy McDowell asks the diva if she wants her jewelry. With her fingernails freshly polished, she snarks, "no, I'm still tacky." What a hoot! Is she talking about her wet nails or her snobby, overkill style? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-just-thought-of-another-word-which-causes-allergic-reations/page/2#post-198870 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:12:37 +0000 Scarlet 198870@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I should probably be quiet anyway when words like "Crimey" come to mind. Sorry I have done too much reading about international tax laws today. Not that they mentioned crimey there, but I believe my brain is a little scrambled. Signing off... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-just-thought-of-another-word-which-causes-allergic-reations/page/2#post-198863 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:07:04 +0000 Queen Mum 198863@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>LOL-<br /> Feel free to tell me anytime whether an outfit is cute or tacky. You won't bother me. </p> <p>Is it "understanding *of* eachother?" that sounds right I think. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-just-thought-of-another-word-which-causes-allergic-reations/page/2#post-198858 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:01:36 +0000 Scarlet 198858@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Crimey! I am losing my English. Can you say "be understanding with each other?" that doesn't sound right. sigh. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-just-thought-of-another-word-which-causes-allergic-reations/page/2#post-198856 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:59:48 +0000 Scarlet 198856@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I know what you mean, Lisa. For example I often want to use the word "cute" but I remember reading at some point that some people are deathly offended by it. I just don't remember who. I guess we all need to be a little understanding with each other. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-just-thought-of-another-word-which-causes-allergic-reations/page/2#post-198851 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:50:49 +0000 Lisa 198851@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh boy, I'm not sure how I'm going to answer posts anymore, I can't keep track of all of the offending words and phrases. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-just-thought-of-another-word-which-causes-allergic-reations/page/2#post-198824 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:38:04 +0000 bj1111 198824@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>omg, mac...totally agree with the word "classy", which is anything but. *shiver* </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-just-thought-of-another-word-which-causes-allergic-reations/page/2#post-198769 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:08:01 +0000 Lynne 198769@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>:D "team Tacky"???? </p> <p>I agree with Angie, it's not constructive....I read the description 'trainwreck' describing someone who's look fits the definition of tacky, and I've adopted it... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-just-thought-of-another-word-which-causes-allergic-reations/page/2#post-198749 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:09:45 +0000 Kristen 198749@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ha, Scarlet, I am going to have to agree with you on the "pop of color". There is just something about that phrase that is like nails on a chalkboard to me! </p> <p>But I will disagree about "bottle of pop": it's soda. 20 years in the Midwest, and it is still "soda" to me. LOL!!!!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-just-thought-of-another-word-which-causes-allergic-reations/page/2#post-198737 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:34:34 +0000 Theresa 198737@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>You girls all make me laugh!!</p> <p>I don't think I have an aversion to any words at all... but then again, there's not a whole lot that really gets me annoyed irrationally I don't think...</p> <p>Except my irrational idea that dresses over jeans = boho LOL </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-just-thought-of-another-word-which-causes-allergic-reations/page/2#post-198654 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 05:36:11 +0000 Scarlet 198654@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Man, it's like walking on eggshells around you people. Okay, then, I kept it to myself till now, but I would like to officially register my dislike of the word "pop" as in "pop of color" or "that will really make your eyes pop". It is so overused. And popping eyes sounds a little scary. However, "a bottle of pop" or "popping your collar" are delightful uses of this word. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-just-thought-of-another-word-which-causes-allergic-reations/page/2#post-198486 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:50:38 +0000 Patience 198486@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I grew up with my father calling his own sister "tacky." Now that I'm an adult I'm not really sure I understand at all. At 70+ years old she wears heels, dresses, dyes her hair reddish and wears make up and has never considered herself beautiful but definitely interesting. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-just-thought-of-another-word-which-causes-allergic-reations/page/2#post-198463 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:28:43 +0000 Mac 198463@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I use "tacky" all the time, but always when it comes to behaviours. Like, when someone yells at a waiter, that's tacky. Or, when someone wears a huge diamond to her kid's soccer game: even if the diamond is gorgeous, her behaviour is tacky.</p> <p>A word that makes my skin crawl is "Classy." The word itself seems to be the polar opposite of the elegance it's meant to connote. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-just-thought-of-another-word-which-causes-allergic-reations#post-198438 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:11:48 +0000 Lisa 198438@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Tacky doesn't bother me too much. But neither did the previous listing of offense words. Guess I'm pretty easy going word wise. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-just-thought-of-another-word-which-causes-allergic-reations#post-198351 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 22:34:10 +0000 Katiepea 198351@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Tacky - isn't that setting glue? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-just-thought-of-another-word-which-causes-allergic-reations#post-198348 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 22:30:39 +0000 Anonymous 198348@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>While I don't think I use the word 'tacky', I like it better than 'cheap'. My father would express elitist sentiments by saying "WE don't ever...." I didn't care for that expression either. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-just-thought-of-another-word-which-causes-allergic-reations#post-198292 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:44:00 +0000 Queen Mum 198292@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Angie-- you would have to agree though that wearing pajama pants to the grocery store would be tacky.</p> <p>haha- I've been thinking about this word all day now. I'm gonna see how many times I can use it on my family tonight ;-)</p> <p>"Go make your bed.. your room looks so tacky!" oh what fun I will have ;-)</p> <p>bj1111.... now there is a term that makes my skin crawl (w. trash) I can't even begin to say how much it gets my goat. I'ts just downright mean and ugly. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-just-thought-of-another-word-which-causes-allergic-reations#post-198262 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:33:28 +0000 Angie 198262@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh boy. I am on my iPhone so I can't answer back in detail. But I will say that Julie is hillarious and that some of these comments are making my already tired head spin!!</p> <p>Clearly I need a cuppa tea. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-just-thought-of-another-word-which-causes-allergic-reations#post-198247 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:17:42 +0000 taylor 198247@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I am on team Tacky...I love that word!! We may all have our own visual with that word...but I think it is a perfect descriptor!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-just-thought-of-another-word-which-causes-allergic-reations#post-198231 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:48:56 +0000 Steph 198231@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm on the tacky train with Maya, Kristen, and the rest. I think tacky actually does have a clear meaning, and think it works in certain situations. I agree with Marianne about tacky vs. cheap, and I much prefer tacky, because anyone can be tacky, including the wealthiest person in the world. Cheap, on the other hand, has more of a classist connotation, and to me seems less clear because it has multiple meanings. Also, I don't like it when the word cheap is used to mean a word like tacky or tawdry ("yuck, she looks so cheap in that outfit"), because it implies that anything that is cheap (aka inexpensive) is bad. </p> <p>I probably didn't explain that well, so I'll make an analogy. When I was growing up, it was accepted to use the word "gay" to mean stupid, ridiculous, etc. As in "Hootie and the Blowfish are so gay." I never thought anything of it until someone who was gay said to me that it was damaging because using gay in that way extended the connotation to gay people. Now you never hear people use the word gay like that. I think cheap is similar. </p> <p>But I think Angie was saying her hatred of the word tacky was irrational, right? That it's just one of those words she doesn't like the sound of? (For me, that word is mucus.) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-just-thought-of-another-word-which-causes-allergic-reations#post-198224 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:27:53 +0000 Gaylene 198224@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>As a now-retired communications prof, I absolutely love these threads.</p> <p>They're living proof of the communication principle that the meaning of words resides in a person, not in the word. So Maya's comment "the problem is not everyone who uses it actually knows what it means, which ends up making it appear vague and confusing when it's really quite specific." is perfect! Don't we all feel like that when others misinterpret our words.</p> <p>By the way, it is quite nice to be part of a forum where participants do choose their words carefully to clarify their opinions while respecting others' feelings. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-just-thought-of-another-word-which-causes-allergic-reations#post-198213 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:45:05 +0000 RoseandJoan 198213@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Marianne, perhaps we just have an aversion to adjectives ending in -y? Classy, tacky and trendy all provoke reactions on the forum. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-just-thought-of-another-word-which-causes-allergic-reations#post-198209 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:38:18 +0000 marianne 198209@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hmm I always thought that "tacky" is more politically correct than "cheap", at least in US. "Cheap" has a low cost connotation, or is it just me? I typically use "tawdry" or "loud".<br /> On a reverse note, I don't like the word "classy" - to me it sounds pretentious. I am not a native speaker so I could be off! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-just-thought-of-another-word-which-causes-allergic-reations#post-198196 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:12:36 +0000 bj1111 198196@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>we use white T. which is not only elitist and classist, but probably vaguely racist as well. must be said with an eyeroll. </p> <p>compared to this, TACKY is positively the height of manners. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-just-thought-of-another-word-which-causes-allergic-reations#post-198195 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:11:21 +0000 Vani 198195@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hmmm...I agree with your take Angie. It does smack a little of snobbishness when used in a certain context. The word that makes me wince a little every single time though is "thong" *wince* as of course all other. Don't ask me why *shrug* </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-just-thought-of-another-word-which-causes-allergic-reations#post-198193 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:00:23 +0000 Claudia 198193@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>(Putting on my hardhat here and going in.)</p> <p>While Angie has a personal hypersensitivity to the word TACKY, I am sure her intention was not to make those that enjoy using the word TACKY as a part of their everyday vocabulary feel defensive about this word choice. </p> <p>That would be considered TACKY to some.</p> <p>But words can and do invoke such powerful memories and meanings to individuals. While just the other day... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-just-thought-of-another-word-which-causes-allergic-reations#post-198186 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:50:09 +0000 Queen Mum 198186@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>exactly what Kristin said. </p> <p>for example...<br /> returning shoes to Nordies after you have CLEARLY gotten more than your $$ out of them = tacky</p> <p>bringing an uninvited guest to a wedding = tacky</p> <p>sporting t-shirts or bumper stickers with sexual inuendos = tacky </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-just-thought-of-another-word-which-causes-allergic-reations#post-198172 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:37:07 +0000 Kristen 198172@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Aww, I love "tacky". It is an elitest, subjective, pointed, condescending insult -- and sometimes you need a word like that to describe something. It can mean many things like cheap, low-brow, classless, ill-mannered, etc, but to me it means just one thing: something that is Just Not Done. </p> <p>But I am well-aware when I use it I am being extremely snobby and snooty, and in a way it is as much a jab at myself for being snobby as it is a jab at whoever for being tacky. We're both being kind of classless, if you think about it. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-just-thought-of-another-word-which-causes-allergic-reations#post-198155 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:15:50 +0000 Angie 198155@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>*chuckle* @ Maya. I'd prefer to be tactful and nice :0). </p> <p>Julie, Medusa, Beth, Kim, Michelle .... AND Maya - I really appreciate your points of view. It seems that there are different meanings for the word. Very interesting. I never grew up using the word tacky so it's also not natural for my vocabulary. I've only really heard it being used since we came to America. I guess I would have used the word "cheap" instead. Which is not a great word either - and I don't use it in that context anymore. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-just-thought-of-another-word-which-causes-allergic-reations#post-198153 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:15:06 +0000 Debbie 198153@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I use in in the same context Queenie does but I've also use it to describe my feelings on an outfit. Like leggings as pants. </p>