Taste: “The sense of what is fitting, harmonious, or beautiful.” Webster

Good: “educated, refined, genuine” Webster

There have been comments in some of the international shelter magazines about the relevance of “good taste” in today’s culture.

Etiquette, religions, clothing fashions, et cetera still manifest traits, traditions, and habits from past periods of history.

Good taste supposedly originated when the lower classes began to get home furnishings that were mass produced as opposed to being locally made and the wealthy, partially to retain their status and to snob others, began the guide lines of what was good taste.

Residences and their furnishings are still today a big indication of one’s social-economic status in the world.

There probably will always be people who will unsupportingly critique what is different from what and where they are.

Your culture, education, intelligence, personality, and where you are in life will flavor your position of the subject of good taste.

The general movement of cultures today toward more casual and less formal living is definitely a factor to be considered here.

What role does the concept of good taste play in and of what importance in your life?

Food for thought.