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So Long, Sad Beige Christmas. Tacky Christmas Is Coming To Town

Erika Kikola's maximalist home, in full Tacky Christmas glory, in Pennsylvania. (Erika Kikola)

By Rachel Kurzius

Beige Christmas. Disco ChristmasPink Christmas.

Holiday decorations are not immune to the cycle of online micro-trends that declare a certain color scheme or aesthetic “in.” Fads enjoy their brief moment in the sun before the next -core eclipses them, their baubles destined for a rebrand or the landfill.

The influencer elves have been hammering away at Santa’s workshop to prepare the latest holiday aesthetic du jour: “Tacky Christmas.”

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Rather than being another tidy, narrowly defined, monochrome theme, Tacky Christmas is more of a “throw everything you’ve got at the yuletide” sort of vibe. Imagine a tree adorned with a mishmash of ornaments and strings of big-bulbed multicolored lights, finished with a healthy heaping of tinsel, and maybe lay down a train set that circles the base, too.



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“It’s not any one specific aesthetic — it’s whatever appeals to you for whatever reason, whether that be nostalgia or just because you think it’s pretty and it makes you happy,” says cozy-content creator Samantha Ulrich-Herman, who is based in Portland, Oregon.

This might seem familiar. That’s because Tacky Christmas is basically just … how Christmas looked back when people might take a photo in front of their tree with a film camera rather than their cellphone, or when “ticktock” referred to the sound of the garland-wrapped grandfather clock instead of a social media app.

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