For people of a certain age, Christmas ornaments meant - or still mean - shiny Icicle tinsel, pink aluminum Christmas trees, plastic Santas, and elf dolls with whimsical looking expressions. For those who don't read retro blogs, such holiday decor is considered tacky or woefully outdated. But we know better. For those of us who are vintage fans, finding such trinkets in our grandmother's attic or at a yard sale would be considered a bonanza! Fortunately, the author of Kitschmasland - a collector's guide to vintage Christmas decorations - feel the same way. The book covers the best of campy Christmas from the 1950s through the 1970s.
Although the book was published in an updated edition last year, I only just learned about it now. It retails for $21.89 on Amazon.
Here's a good question for my readers - what was the tackiest holiday ornament or decorative piece you can remember having in your house? For me, it was these humongous, hideous beaded ornaments that were popular in the 70s and usually available through the Mary Maxim catalog. They consisted of a big styrofoam ball that you would cover with pins and beads. Sometimes they were referred to as Victorian ornaments, although there was nothing elegant about them. They met their fate with the trash bin by the early 80s, though we stopped hanging them on the tree way before then. They looked something like this:
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